Footnotes
The Twins Birth
My wife’s condition would become harder and worsen day by day. Dr. Sorour Ahi was strictly nursing her at a clinic in Amiriyyeh Street. My wife and I had persistently asked her to conduct the surgery of my child’s birth by her...
Beginning of Cooperation with MKO
One month after freedom from ACC Ali Reza Sepassi Ashtiani came to visit me. I had a long friendship with him since my presence in INP and Hezbollah group. When Hezbollah merged in MKO (Mujahidin Khalq Organization)[1], he officially became member of...
Barrier over Barrier
Endless Interventions by SAVAK One or two days after being freed I was thinking what I had to do. The responsibility for the new life would not let me be free. I could follow many affairs freely and relaxed because of being unmarried, but after being...
The Fate of Siege
When I reached home, my Mum was dumbstruck when watching me. She was not good. I saw my father who was still twitching because of that night’s incident. My wife, the so-called new bride, was also there. I went forward and kissed my parents’...
Evaluating ACC
Anti-sabotage Common Committee was e new organization but so strong and terrible. My prison days there were not so long; however, I learned a lot and could be more familiar with fight techniques. It was in ACC that I practically experienced the...
Toward Freedom
It was about twenty days that I was in ACC. Once the cell door opened and a slim man with middle height and a normal face entered. Manouchehri and two others were along with him who would respect him so much calling him General. First he asked from my...
Meeting with Hojjat-ul-Eslam Lahooti
An hour after the evening-call for prayers the guard would open the door for going to toilet. A day after that Sonorous sickness, when I came out of the toilet, the guard suddenly took my hand and made me follow him in the corridor. When we reached to...
Sonorous Sickness
The last days that I was in ACC I had become slim and weak because of fasting since I could not have war food. I would eat my lunch for evening and my dinner at dawn. Additionally, because of the blood and pus of that young student, the cell was quite...
Heavenly Apples
That night the agents took me back to ACC without reaching to any result. This time they took me to a new cell where a clergy named Gerami and a young student had already been there. It was Cell No. 17 that had a 1.5 meters rug on the ground. That night...
Honey Moon in Prison
It was about two or three days after my marriage that the telephone ranged. I pick up the phone. A man said: “Sir, I am calling from Telecommunication Company. I am checking the lines. Please give me your address then I can give your new phone...
Apple Smell
Job, Marriage In the early days after my freedom, my relatives and friends came to visit me to get the news. I was happy with that because of my worries about SAVAK’s monitoring who come to our house. Some days passed this way. I had to find a...
Hezbollah and Unity with MKO
We had saved the group that we had shaped with holy goals from the hands of SAVAK despite heavy tortures. However, when Abbass Agha Zamani went abroad and I was imprisoned, Javad Mansouri became a minority the central cadre of the party and move its way...
Qezel Hessar Prison[1] and Freedom Again
Mehdi Rezaee was executed on September 7th 1972. We decided to hold a meeting in memory of him in the big room known as “Gathering Room”[1]. In this meeting Ayatollah Anvari stood at the door to welcome others as the host. Group of...
Once again, Qasr Prison
Once again, Qasr Prison By the orders of military justice, I was transferred to Shahrbani [the police] Prison on July 19th 1972. Since the prison was quarantined, they queued up us to frisk. They searched the mouth and all the cloths even the...
Back to Qezel Qal’eh Prison
After the appeal court they took me to Qezel Qal’eh Prison. There, a Marxist came to me and said: “There is a prisoner in the 1st row introduces himself as Javad Mansouri and knows you.” I was shocked by hearing it. After some...
Another Trail
It was about one month that I was in the same row along with Fadayee guerrillas and would go for interrogation every day to military justice. On June 4th 1972 they told me the first session of my trial would be held. Hassan Safakish was the judge. In...
Unsuccessful Jailbreak
Death penalty verdicts of 21 members of Ahmadzadeh Marxist group issued. I was thinking of a jailbreak and needed information to complete my plan. So, I would gather preliminary information when going to interrogation sessions. I found out the prison had...
Interrogation
Few days after my meeting with Saeed Mohammadi Fateh, the agents came to me. They closed my eyes and hands and put in a bus. Then we came out of Evin Prison. Inside the bus somebody had sat so calmly just beside me. I asked him: “Who are...
Cell No. 16, Evin
When we entered Evin, there was a two-stair building on the right side and a building with two rows of cells on the left side. In the second row of this building, there were 16 big cells with about 2.5*3 square meters area, a supervision room, and in the...
Transferring to Evin Prison
After 8 months of up and downs I had almost lost my temper. I was getting crazy in solitary confinement. To get free of such conditions I decided to go on a hunger strike. The next day I did it. The prison guards noticed my refusal for eating and they...