Narration of haj Ebrahim Alijani; one of the survivors of a saga on 5 June in Varamin plain

We Put Seyyed on the Ground and Ran Away

On June 5, 1963, a delegation left the market to come to the courtyard. At the crossroads, some people were standing on stools and held mourning. We moved to the courtyard again. That day we had a guest from [shrine] Shah Abd al-Azim.

Memoirs of Hassan Soleimani, a servant and guard of Imam Khomeini (God bless his soul)

Selection of Mosalla for people’s farewell with Imam

The moments when the body of the imam was being washed, Haj Ahmad Agha [Imam’s son] told Mr. Ansari that we wanted to find somewhere or a center to keep the body of the late imam for two or three days so that the people came and bid farewell with him. Mr. Ansari regarded Mosalla as a proper place and left.

A memory regarding ulema’s sit-in in Tehran University

This activity and going back and forth continued until two or three nights before the Imam's arrival in Iran, when Bakhtiar prevented him from entering. Mr. Jalali Khomeini called and said that all the prayer leaders should gather in the university. We must sit down and stand in front of the government so that the Imam would definitely come.

Treatment of the Wounded on 7 September

The injured people of the incident [7 September of 1978, Tehran] were taken by the people to the house of the late Dr. Vaezi, located in the head of Rouhi alley. Together with Ms. Azam Taleghani, we put some of the injured women in the van and took them to Dr. Vaezi's house, whose office was also there, and he started treatment. A large number of committed doctors, including Dr. Fayyaz Bakhsh, who was a friend ...

Secret Life in Dezful

When I went to Qom [1976], after a while, I made an appointment with Mr. Hamed Dehghan for the third time. Our appointment was in Mr. Ebrahimi's Jian (Dyane) car. When my family and I went to visit them, we saw another person sitting there too. Mr. Ebrahimi introduced him to us. Later, when I met him at our cabal house and we formed a guerrilla group together, I found out that his real name was Dehghan.

We must be Awake while You Are Asleep

We wanted to set an exhibition, and I got a mission to come to Nasser Khosro Street, Haj Naib alley, where most of the publications and religious bookstores were located in there. At that time, the market for these types of books was extremely busy, unlike now, that it is not. Books encouraging struggle were at the top of books read by young people and students.

Boycott

A memory from Asadollah Tajrishi

At the beginning of my arrival in Evin Prison, I was taken to solitary confinement as always and after a few days, I was transferred to the public cell. The public cells had been located in two floors. The arrangement of these cells in the cells of 1355 and 1356 was such that on the lower floor, there was a ward ...

Why did you get up so soon?

Zhian Panah was one of the elements who prevented the guys to pray which led them to go on strike. Once, I woke up earlier than the deadline, there was a three-story bed, and I was on the third story. There were also good guys in the lower stories. When I came down from the bed, Master Sergeant Moradi saw me, I did it every night, but I don't know what happened.

Part of memoirs of Mamoosta Molla Qader Qaderi, Paveh’s Friday Prayer Leader

The trip of Ahmad Moftizadeh & Mamoosta Sheikh Jalal Hosseini to Paveh

After the victory of the Islamic revolution, the people of Oramanat area and the Sunni people of Kermanshah Province, unlike most cities in northern Kurdistan were alongside the Islamic Republic system ...

Memoirs of Seyedeh Maryam Jalali about public aids to fronts

Higher than gold

Receiving public aids to support the war was a priority for our work in the IRGC. We took advantage of every opportunity to attract public aids. At that time, the cost of accommodation for each combatant in the fronts was 20 thousand tomans and the salary of each IRGC member was 15 thousand tomans.
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