Excerpt from the Memoirs of General Mohammad Jafar Asadi

An Eternal Lie!

Compiled by: Faezeh Sassanikhah
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2025-7-10

From the south, we were not very comfortable, but there was no time to hesitate. We left the work to the battalions and went west with Qassem Soleimani and a number of Mahdi officials. Later it turned out that in order to send a message to the hypocrites, they had said that the situation in Iran was not stable; you are like a snowball that if you set off and reach Tehran, you will become an avalanche and ruin the government. They had given them all kinds of facilities, from anti-aircraft, tanks and artillery to all kinds of advanced light weapons.

The joint conspiracy of the United States and Saudi Arabia, accompanied by Iraq, had resulted in an ignorant and deceived group attacking their own country!

Before we got there, they had committed many crimes in the city of Islamabad, such as shooting at the wounded in a hospital, which had led to the martyrdom of all of them. Then they had dropped their heads and headed towards Kermanshah to conquer it and head for Tehran!

At the Charzbar crossroads, which is a point between Islamabad and Kermanshah, they encounter the first obstacle that will also be the last. That same day, a group of children from the 27th Division of the Prophet (PBUH) were waiting for a bus to go on leave in a camp near Charzbar. The bus arrives late and they are forced to stay when they are told that the hypocrites are on their way.

They go and block the strait and build an embankment. Apparently, a Toyota, with a woman sitting behind the wheel, comes at breakneck speed in front of the hypocrites and slams the car hard into the embankment and is thrown over it. The children fire at him, and this incident marks the beginning of their conflict with the attackers.

Soleimani and I had reached the area earlier than the others. Even at the Islamabad crossroads, we were fired upon by some of them who had blocked the road.

There was an emergency airport not far from the crossroads when we went there and saw that Mohsen Rezaei had also arrived with a few people and was talking on a nearby hill. We reported the situation. Mohsen had no means of communication. With the help of Karim Masoud, the communications officer of the Mahdi Division, we contacted Ahvaz and, on the orders of the IRGC commander, we called in the forces. The officials responsible for sending the Ahvaz force had already started working, and the forces that were coming from the south were heading west without getting out of their cars. The peak of the actions against the MKO was marked by Sayyad Shirazi. He quickly brought army planes and helicopters from the Air Force to the area, and by the time we arrived to deploy forces and artillery equipment and organize the forces, the planes and helicopters bombed the MKO positions and disrupted their organization. It was on the third day that everything was ready and the final attack, titled Operation Mersad, began from three axes. There, in addition to the children of the army of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), the armies of Tharallah, Ansar al-Husayn, and Mahdi also took action.

The hypocrites, who had suffered a severe blow from the air force and the air force and considered the promises of the people to accompany them to be an illusion, gave up and fled. Most of them were killed and captured along the way, and a few reached Iraqi soil. Later, when their bodies were being buried, we saw that many of them had taken cyanide pills out of fear of being caught.

I remember that we had reached the vicinity of the city of Kerand Gharb in pursuit of the hypocrites when an old man raised his hand and we stopped. Of course, he was not an old man! I myself had passed the 30, but to the children, who were all 20 to 25 years old, a fifty-year-old man seemed old. I myself was behind the wheel. I said, "What is it, Father?" He did not stop or turn around, he began to pray until he sat down and started again, when I handed over seven guards in Islamabad. I brought your daughters and sons food and etc.

We were the first car to arrive there and he thought we were from the forces of the hypocrites. I said: "Do you want to see Massoud Rajavi?" He said: "I ask God." I said: "Finally, you served, you should get your pay." He started saying bad things again. He swore that I had never received a single coupon and was waiting for you to come and save us. When we reached the city, I handed him over to the security and said that they would take you to Massoud Rajavi!

On our way, we saw a car with a hypocrite girl behind the wheel, who had been shot in the head and her hat was lying on the seat next to her. I took the hat. I still have it. It had her name written on it and in parentheses the name Maryam. Then we saw that the men had done the same thing and had written Massoud's name, which meant nothing but stupidity and depravity.

The operation of the hypocrites, which I believe was an eternal lie, in which a deceived group, following one of the most criminal dictators in history, turned their weapons on their own people, failed in four days. The resurgence of Iranian power, with the killing of more than four thousand hypocrites and Iraqi soldiers, which no one expected at the speed we showed, frightened Saddam again and he soon announced that he would accept the resolution. The general mobilization of the country in the last days of the war also made Western countries think about starting peace negotiations.

The imposed war, which we refer to as the Sacred Defense, ended after eight years; while I have no doubt that it will forever remain at the top of the epic history of the Iranian nation. Before the invasion of Iran began, Saddam, in front of the cameras, tore up the 1975 agreement, starting a war that he believed in the very first week: "Iraq has determined its borders, it is (Imam) Khomeini who must declare where its borders are." Two years later, when his forces were driven out of Khorramshahr, he falsely said that he wanted peace, but at the end of the war, with the help of chemical weapons, he tried again to take Khorramshahr, but was again defeated and forced to retreat. When he declared in a letter to the Iranian president in 1980, "The basis of our peace with Iran is the 1975 agreement," he meant that Iran had been the absolute victor of the eight-year war. He not only lost the war, but also sacrificed his life for the pursuit of power. As one of the most criminal leaders in the world, when the noose was hung around his neck, he considered the Islamic Republic to be the main cause of his unfortunate fate.[i]