Footnotes
Unburdened Sorrows
Following Imam Khomeini Begins When Grand Ayatollah Boroujerdi passed away, the Shah’s regime tried hard to show that Ayatollah Hakim in Iraq was officially the most high-ranking Shia clergy in order to transfer Shia power core out of Iran;...
Knowing Mohammad Mofidi
Knowing Mohammad Mofidi[1] was one of the greatest achievements for me during my military service. He was martyred later. The story of knowing him is a nice one. In Karaj Garrison I was in the 6th battalion. Once when they were calling the names of the...
Marriage “No!”, Arrest “Yes!”
Being a teacher and working with the children were my personal interests. So, political activity was not an impediment for keeping these interests. I was teaching sports in several schools and had contacts with many teachers and students. It was...
Affection Umbrella for the Rain of Soil
In September 1962 a big earthquake shook Boien Zahra in Qazvin province and killed and injured thousands of people. People spontaneously and immediately hurried there to help the victims of earthquake. I was sadly impressed for this catastrophe and along...
Sina Teachers Training Center
In an atmosphere that most of the youth were eager to go and educate in money maker disciplines such as topography, construction or working in land registration offices. But I was interested in teaching and would consider it as a good way to propagate....
Teachers' Strike and Dr. Abolhassan Khan'ali Murder
In 1960 I was in 6th grade of high school for the second time. In May 1961 a cultural protest was made by the leadership of Mohammad Derakhshesh. In the continuation of this protest, teachers gathered in protest in Baharestan Square for their low...
The First Prison Experience
Pass mark for 1st to 5th grade of high school was 7 and for 6th grade 10. In 1960 I was in 6th grade that I witnessed there was a protest among the students that changed to a guild protest. Education Ministry had announced that pass mark for 5th grade...
Teenage and High School
I was about fifteen that I saw street protests by Tudeh party and National Front (Pan-Iranist Group)[1] supporters against each other. Each of them had shock groups that would clash with the other side in the streets.[2] I remember once in one of...
Childhood and Elementary School
Childhood and Elementary School I was seven years old when my brother, Mahmood, who was mentally sick, and I went to Farvardin elementary school which was located in the same quarter and registered our names for the 1st grade. Since my brother was...
Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs
Seven years ago when the print of this book was published, written memoirs of fighters against the Pahlavi Regime were not outnumbered like today. As “Islamic Revolution Documents Center” website admitted then in introducing the book of Hussein Ahmadi (handwritten memoirs): “Publication of Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs is a new opening in researches about MKO(Mujahedin Khalq Organization)”, and in other words it created a new approach to reach parts of historical events and knowing political movements in 1960s and 70s.
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...
Rigidity and Resistance
It was Ramadan; the month of God, month of purity and mercy. It was for the several times that I was in the regime’s prison during Ramadan. Fasting, and praying in those solitary confinements had another atmosphere. I was happy of reaching to...