Memories of the War and Captive of Azizollah Farrokhi- Part I
Radiotelephones were saying: Go to the moon!
Azizollah Farrokhi, one of the combatants and freedmen of years of the war and during the Iraqi imposed war against Iran. He was born in Tehran in 1342, was interviewed with Iranian Oral History website about his memories of the war and also her captivity in army camps of Saddam. In the first part of this interview, we read Farrokhi memories of the first dispatch to the front until liberation of Khorramshahr.Critical moments of an operation narrated by 2nd Brigadier General Eskandar Beyranvand
The Strange commander of Battalion 139
2nd Brigadier General Eskandar Beyranvand is one of Army commanders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1960, he entered Military school and then joined the army. In Operation Fath ol-Mobin (1982), he was commander of independent brigade 84 in Dasht-e Abbas and played major role in recapturing areas of Dasht-e Abbas, Ali Greh zad, Tine, Bridge of Chikhab River, highlands of Ein Khosh, barrack of Ein Khosh, heights of Kamar Sorkh and Tishe Kan. Read the interview with him on Oral History website.Abdolreza Tarazi spoke of important operations and martyr Dastvareh
Wireless and magic box of codes and passwords carrying ambulance
Story of Iraqi imposed war against Iran from wireless operators’ point of view opens a new window to the audience.Wireless operators as the closest to the commanders and guardians of operations codes are members of sensitive forces whose presence directly affected the operation. Abdolreza Tarazi, wireless operator of 27 Rasoul Ollah Division who participated in Badr, Kheibar, and Valfajr 8 and many other operations during 8 years of Holy Defense talks about his memories of the operations accompanying commanders with Iran Oral History Site.An interview with memory writer of the book “Haj Qassem Guys”
We are worried about the memoirs getting away from minds
People are drawn to a side on the basis of their interests. The writers often like a special genre and work in this field. Some of them pick out the area of the sacred defense. Afsar Fazeli Shahr-e Babaki is one of such writers; someone who has grown up in an environment which has caused her to understand the issue of the sacred defense well. Born in 1976 in the city of Shahr-e Babak in Kerman Province, she works in the fields of poetry, oral history and memory writing.From Art Center to the front line
Asqar Naqi Zadeh, his Grenade and Camera
An interview with a war photographer
Asqar Naqi Zadeh is the actor of theater, cinema and TV who started his activity from the Art Center (Hozeh-ye Honari). With the start of the Iraqi imposed war against Iran, he went to the war fronts as a war photographer in order to depict every moment of the war in the framework of photos. He is now around 54 years old and has talked about his memoirs of the sacred defense days in southern and western fronts with the website of Iranian Oral History.About month of Ramadan in 1950s-60s
Nobody would protest to Sahar-Khani
Ali Asghar Laali is a locksmith in one of the crowded streets of Arak. He is 62 and faces his customers with smiling. Accidently I encountered and talked to him shortly in a warm evening in blessed month of Ramadan about this month in 1950s-60s. Although the subject of conversation was the month of Ramadan but we talked about other issues.An interview with Moussa Sedghi about his memoirs
The Secret words made by letters "P-ZH-G-CH"
Passed 36 years of the Iraqi imposed war against Iran, the memory of burning heat weather in south frontage operations and chilly weather of mountains in west frontage remains still in the minds of warriors, who tried to return to frontage of war to defend their homeland and purposes even they were injured. Moussa Sedghi is one of warriors who was a teenager in those days, and he always returned to west and south frontages of war to defend his ancestral territory along with other warriors even when he was injured. Sedghi talks about the memoirs of hot summer days in frontage of war and days of Operation Valfajar 8 in an interview with Oral History.General narrates the operations of southern front
The battalion of instructors resolved problems
The eight-year Iraqi imposed war against Iran caused many men of this land to go to the battlefield. However, there were people who lived with the war since the first hours of the beginning of the war till the last seconds of its termination, and registered their names in every moment of the war ranging from Bazi Deraz to Karbala 5 operations.Two memories from two martyrs
Badr Fortress and Bulwark of Karbala One
Whenever we talk about the eight-year Iraqi imposed war against Iran, we see the images of the armed men amidst the battle field who were fighting until their last breath for defending their soil; but in all the operations, one of the combatants by accepting the responsibility of carrying a radio set (portable transceiver) went along with the commander during the operations and passed the information to friendly forces from that side of the lines.From west to south with memoirs of FiroozAhmadi
Battalion left and did not come back anymore until…
Firooz Ahmadi was a Basiji (volunteer force) and a baker who appeared as a watchman and the person in charge of implementation of artillery fire during the eight-year sacred defense and has registered in his record the presence in more than 11 war operations. Ahmadi has lots of memoirs from the country’s western and southern fronts and talks about them in an interview with the Oral History website....
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