Sa’id Mohammadi Fateh’s Departure

Sa’id Mohammadi Fateh was a son of Vajihullah Mohamadi Fateh - Tin Can Manufacturing Company manager and owner. I knew him in the factory. Gradually this relation changed to a friendship. Sa’id was an enthusiastic believer young man and interested in revolutionary activities. He was eager to know what had happened to me in prison and what were my experiences and knowledge. Whenever he would find some time, he would come to me and ask about prison and fighting. I would mostly talk about believes and insight for the fight. His motivation and commitment were interesting to me.

I was fed up with the wrongdoings of the chief accountant of the factory and Sa’id helped me to change my post to a new one and I was moved to workers’ section. My job was in control and loading section. Here I could find more contacts with other workers.

After some time without introducing the Hezbollah group to Sa’id, I invited him to Abbass Agha Zamani classes. He was attracted to these classes and believed that Abbass was a knowledgeable teacher. When Sa’id was informed about the fighting background of Abbass became more interested in him. Sa’id’s enthusiasm made it possible for him to have good growth in ideological fields. Now he had become a Hezbollah member without being aware of it. So, when he was arrested, he had nothing to say about Hezbollah group. The regime was getting ready to conduct 2500th anniversary of Persian Empire for few years. We were aware of this matter in Hezbollah group. After holding several meetings and many discussions we decided to do an operation against these feasts. So, we started to get ready by shooting exercises and martial arts.
It was about the winter of 1969 that the factory’s owner decided to participate in Osaka Industrial Exhibition in Japan and then import some industrial machinery for his production line. He suggested Sa’id to go to this exhibition. Sa’id who was interested in political affairs, Islamic movements and the destiny of Palestinian fight against Israel, accepted this suggestion after consulting with us. We encouraged him to go there because we wanted to send him out of the country in order to go to Germany and then training camps in Lebanon to learn militia fighting. Reaching to this goal would facilitate our operation against 2500th anniversary feasts.
At the time of Sa’id’s departure I was doing my military service in Semnan and would come to Tehran only once in a weak. However, I would never lose a chance to talk about ideological matters with Sa’id. The other palls also began working on him. Abbass Agha Zamani who had recently come back from Germany, gave the address of Hussein Reza’i and Hassan Massali and other places along with a recommendation letter to Sa’id. He hid the papers in his bag and then went to Japan. His family and I went with him to the airport and when he went, I came back.

When Osaka Industrial Exhibition was over and the orders of the father were done, Mohammadi Fateh went directly toward Germany. Mohammad -Sa’id’s brother informed us that he had reached Germany safely.

Because of being informed about Sa’id’s activities and situation I made friends with his lesser brother Mohammad Mohammadi Fateh. Mohammad was a good and understanding boy but inexperienced. He would tell me the latest news about his brother to me. Additionally, Sa’id himself began sending me letters with a pseudonym, Mohammad Behtash, because of his lack of experience. I did my best not to reply any of his letters; however, in some cases I had to write him back. So, I chose the pseudonym of Samad for writing to him.

When Sa’id reached Germany (winter of 1968), he began looking for the addresses he had taken from Agha Zamani. On the first night he could not find Hussein Reza’i but he met someone who had introduced himself as a friend of Hussein Reza’i. That man had become suspicious about Sa’id’s trip and could cleverly make Sa’id trust him. He hoaxed Mohammadi Fateh and he revealed the secrets of his trip and his relations abroad. As a result of lack of experience, Sa’id revealed his ideas and even the goals of his trip and explained how he had gone to Osaka and his reason for coming to Germany.

The next night that Sa’id could see Hussein Reza’ii, he denies the existence of such a friend. It was clear that he had been a SAVAK agent abroad. So, on the very early days of Sa’ids trip, the goals and reasons behind his trip became clear for SAVAK. From that date all his activities and moves were under the monitoring of SAVAK. Sa’id went to Lebanon from Germany and for two years passed different courses for guerilla and militia fighting.