It was about five months that we were in the house in Zarrin-Na’l Street. One day, I noticed suspicious moves in front of the house. I told the matter to Habib. He also informed MKO at once. They ordered to change the place.
The task of finding a new house was ordered to my wife. In a short time, she could find another house with the same security specifications in Majd alley at Bouzarjomehri (15th of Khordad) Street.
By coming to the new house, Habib informed Parviz and Khosrow that the go-between of their team-house had been arrested and it was possible for them to be revealed and being arrested, so they had to remain in the same house at nights.[1]
In renting a secure house the point which was so important was the carelessness of the owner about the identity of renters and the people who may come and go there, not the money for rent.
The new secret house had two rooms, a hall, kitchen, and bath. The windows would open to the alley and we could monitor most of the people’s traffic. The owner was a good man who would claim that once he had been a seminary student.
After the home change I had to do some changes in my job. So, I stopped iron junk dealing. By consulting one of my old friends from INP, Ahmad Rouhi, I entered iron market (not iron junks). Mr. Rouhi introduced me to Haj Ali Akbar Pour-Ostad[2]; he was also an old friend of my brother. We I met him he identified me. I told him that I wanted to do iron dealing. He hesitated and then thoughtfully asked: “To want to work or have a covering?” I said: “Both; covering is the aim but if I earn money, it is better.” Then he made contacts with some merchants and introduced me as iron dealer.
Before beginning my job, I spent some days for finding some knowledge about different kinds of irons. I read some catalogues. Entering this job was not beneficial for me because of lack of experience and enough time and the market conditions but it was a good covering for my activities. Maybe if I could spend more time for this job I would have achieved good successes.
After some time, Habib separated from us and new person named Iraj was replaced with him. Iraj told us: "Habib is separated from you for conducting a mission. I am the go-between for you and MKO."
Iraj was an extremist. He believed for achieving the lost rights all ways possible were allowed; even stealing or any other action like stealing from small shops to big banks and cars. He would even steal spoon and forks from parties and consider it as "revolutionary confiscation" and a way to help the survival of MKO. Hearing his justifications, we accepted to ignore two carpets of my wife which were used in our team-house and gave them to him. Later I was informed those carpets were transferred to Taqi Shahram's secret house in north of Tehran.
When Iraj came, forging documents was added to our tasks. We would forge ID cards, passports, and … unskillfully of course. In some cases, MKO would give us some ID cards and passports and we would only change the photograph skillfully with a new one and then seal it or change the its number.
Iraj would come to our house before noon and stay there until sunset. But we would not see him saying his prayers. I checked him several times and I became sure that he would not say his prayers. I asked him several times: “why don’t you say your prayers?” and he would say: “I did. You may not have seen. But any way, if you say, I may do it again.” I would say by myself: “Such a surprise! What a believing man he is; we suspect and he says that he would do it again.”
Repetition of such scenes gradually made us sure that he was not behaving frankly. One day he wore my coat and went out. The next day when he came back I found a driving license with his name and photograph in my coat’s pocket. Thus, I found out his real name.[3]
After some time MKO ordered us to find a new secure house. Once again by the activeness of Shapourzadeh we could rent a new house (the second secure house) in Southern Sabalan Street. The owner was an ordinary but happy man named Dadashzadeh.
At the time that Khosrow, Parviz and I were working in an unhygienic workshop for making explosive materials for MKO, Iraj would go to our house for making long discussions with my wife. He would talk with about matters such as: “You have good knowledge in ideological believes but you are not as advances as what your husband is. You are a free woman and should not be dependent to your husband. He is your husband; it true. But you should obey him just in marital affairs not sociopolitical ones. You should increase your political knowledge by reading books. Struggle against the regime has many up and downs and your husband may be killed for his goals. So, if you do not have an independent personality, you would be hurt and cannot continue his way; and at the same time there is no way backward and….”
I always had made many discussions with Fatimah about this plot and had narrated about my experiences in order to make her mind ready to accept the future events. I never impeded her from saying her ideas and I always had tried to make her mind more mature.
Gradually I witnessed some changes in my wife’s mind. Iraj had managed to change her mind more compatible with his own in some cases. I would observe some clear objections from her about my ideas but I would welcome it. I would consider it as signs of mind progress for her personality. Iraj had penetrated to our life just like a bat and gradually had begun sucking the blood of our life. Fatimah reinforced their fake slogans in her mind and by accepting untruthful responsibilities and training works she gradually found a new personality.
[1] Mr. Ahmad narrates: "Khosrow told me that he seen the go-between of their team-house in the street and Habis had lied and it was only an excuse for entering my safe house."
[2] Haj Ali Akbar Poor Ostad (Ostad Hussein Ali Kashi), son of Gholam Ali was born in 1929 in Tehran. He was an iron dealer in Tehran Bazaar. He was a member of Islamic Coalition Councils. He was arrested on October 5th 1963 because intriguing the shopkeepers and going on strike. He was freed a day after that arrest but continued his activities. On June 16th 1966 he was arrested once again and sentenced to two years in prison. After freedom he was permanently under SAVAK monitoring. Once again he was arrested on August 27th 1978 because of his contacts with the late Andarzgoo. He was imprisoned but freed on November 6th 1978.
[3] Jamal Sharifzadeh Shirazi was born in Tehran in 1950. His father was watchmaker. His family moved to Iraq in his childhood and they were expelled in 1970. After returning to Iran, Jamal was accepted in an industrial university in Physics Engineering.
At university he got acquainted with MKO and joined it. In the summer of 1975 he joined Taqi Shahram Branch and became his assistant. For some time he was in charge of a group called “Sassanian”. The aim of shaping this group was creating relations with the main cadre of MKO and its supporters and would afford money and needed things for this organization. In November/December of 1975 he killed his brother -in-law, “Reza Khaleqi”, who was a driver in royal court. On 22th of April 1976, SAVAK agents entrapped him along with Taher Mirza Jafar Allaf and Mehdi Mousavi Qumi and all three committed suicide by eating cyanide capsules.
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