November 4, 1964 November 4, 1964, is the day Imam Khomeyni was deported to Turkey. A year and a half before he delivered a fiery speech against the Shah’s regime. That night he was arrested in Qom and transferred to Tehran. This event led to...

A political prisoner is someone who is arrested and imprisoned for violating the legal limits set for political freedoms. In societies where political liberty rules are respected, the number of political prisoners is usually low or very low. However,...

Mohammad-Ali Rajaei was born in Qazvin in 1934. His father Karbala’i Abdol-Samad worked in a men’s clothing market in Qazvin, in religious communities, he fought against secular and communist ideas. Karbala’i Abdol-Samad died in 1938,...