House Finding by Shapourzadeh

Fatimah Fartoukzadeh (Shapourzadeh), was a believer, religious woman and a kind companion wife. During my life with her I did not feel anything except believes and religion in her. She voluntarily accepted to join me in the way of struggle against the regime and living secretly. She would try not to move out of my position and viewpoint in ideological classes. She would go out of house sometimes. I would ask her to take a gun with her but she would not accept. She would say: "I must be careful about my veil. I cannot have a gun in hand and keep my veil either." Anyway, she moved this way and by reading many books and participating in classes grew her knowledge in thought and mind.

At the time we were working so hard, my wife lived highly devotedly. She would do all the cleaning and nursing the children and showed a good talent in finding secure houses. By the orders of MKO she could find many secure houses for other teams. She could make a good experience.

When going to find a house she would take one of the twins and go out. She would knock on the doors and ask for water for her kid or a possibility of changing her napkin there. Then she would begin talking with the landlord and ask about a room to rent. Then he or she would show his or her own room for rent and if it was not available would introduce my wife to some other people who might have rooms for renting. Our kid would get cold during these trips. Fatimah would tolerate all these hardships because of her strong divine reason. This kind of house finding without referring to real states had many security reasons. At that time real states had to present a copy of any contract to the local police station. Police stations had to be coordinated with SAVAK to find and arrest political fighters or guerillas in the secure team-houses.

MKO observing the successes of Fatimah in house-finding asked her to share her experience with other teams in ideological classes. Fatimah told me herself that MKO had assigned her teaching house-finding in ten team-houses and it was so important for her. The role of twins was so important in house finding. This would wipe out any suspicion by people in society. The kid got sick several times for this matter. Even the young boys and girls in MKO would take our kids to show they were married and would look for a house and thus they would experience what they had theoretically learned.

One I remember they had taken Maryam with themselves. When they returned I saw that she had burnt her hand. It seemed she had put her hand in the bowl of hot soup at lunch. They would get panicky and cannot do anything for her; they did not know anything about kid nursing. When I saw her burnt hand, I got upset and criticized them.

By beginning the hoaxes and tricks of MKO, Fatimah gradually took distance from me day by day. MKO would follow independence in her personality, thinking and ideology very seriously and insist on indifference between men and women in organizational structure. Fatimah had believed this new status and thought it would the only way for her to make progress in her thoughts. She had elementary education and by being located in such status she found a hollow personality and was hurt in an irretrievable way.

MKO following its devil programs for people like me presented a new plan in which the so-called “Sisters” and “Brothers” had to live in separated teams. The obvious goal of this plan was to divide married people in the organization in order to collapse their married lives. By losing marriage responsibilities and creating hollow personalities, they were able to use people for their goals.

Anyway… at that time I strictly believed these activities and accepted that Fatimah could leave our own house to go to this kind of team-houses limitedly. Thus, she accepted the responsibility of two team-houses. After the ideology change in MKO everything was reverse. I would stay at home and take care of kids and she would go out for work and activity. Sometime she would not come home for several nights, and if I would not ask her where she had been, she would not tell anything and if I would ask, she would not answer clearly. She would say that she has had classes for some other MKO members. This behavior was something that MKO had wanted. MKO would not let her to reveal her information and activities related with other team-houses. I found out the devil aims of MKO when it was too late and I could do nothing for this misery except waiting…