Return of Saeed Mohammadi Fateh

It was arranged for Saeed to be in Iran for operations against the 2500^th anniversary of Persian Empire feasts. He had gone to Germany after being trained as militia in Lebanon. Since his passport was sealed in Passport Department in Lebanon, he had problem to enter Iran. He decided to hoax SAVAK to get free of this problem. As it was planned, he referred to Iranian Embassy in Germany and asked for new passport saying he had lost the older one. The embassy became suspected about him. They inquired SAVAK about him by delivering his name and other ID information. SAVAK, who had found what it wanted, told them to facilitate his coming to Iran. For six months he followed reissuing his passport unaware of SAVAK monitoring him and knowing his hoax. Finally, the embassy, coordinated with SAVAK, told him reissuing a new passport was impossible there and they could only give him a visa to get back home. They had told him that he had to go back home and ask for a new passport there. Saeed, happy of hoaxing the embassy, welcomed this suggestion. So, he came back. SAVAK had arranged everything for him to pass all the gates in airport with no problem. They let him free for some days while monitoring him wherever he went and explored his contacts with others.

After his departure to Germany, SAVAK agents had gone to his fatherly house several times and investigated about him from his family. I had noticed that he was squealed for SAVAK. So, I wrote him no to come back to Iran. I had sent this letter with a pseudonym to his brother, Mohammad. This letter had also been entrapped by SAVAK. Saeed unaware of all these events, contacted with me right after visiting his family and came to our house. I told him: “Why have you come here?! You might be chased!” He said: “No; you, may be… but me, no!”

Then he narrated the trend of his return to Iran. I found out that SAVAK had entrapped him. I told him: “You’ve been entrapped by SAVAK. They have hoaxed you.” I read for him my reasons and asked him not to contact me anymore. Later on, all our contacts were made through his brother, Mohammad Mohammadi Fateh and we manage to visit each other in some appointments. The main discussions in these visits were how to coordinate with each other about what we may confess after arrest. In order to justify everything for SAVAK, we would carry sport equipment such as sport shoes and cloths and … for example we would coordinate with each other that we were going for mountain climbing on Friday and such. During these days, SAVAK would summon him for different reasons and try to force him to cooperate. At last, in was in July 1971 that one day he did not come for the appointment that we had made. I became worried and guessed he was arrested; so, called his home. Mohammad picked the phone. I asked about Saeed and told him that we were about to go mountain climbing the next day. Mohammad said that he had gone that morning and not come back till then. I told him: “Ok, you come instead.” But he did not come. I suppose that day, when Mohammad had been coming out of the house, he had become suspicious to the conditions around and guessed that his house had been monitored. So, he had changed his path and not come to our house. This way we found out that Saeed had been arrested.