The 342nd Night of Memory-1

Compiled by: Leila Rostami
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2023-8-2

Note: The 342nd Night of Memory was held on Thursday, December 22, 2022, with the presence of a group of commanders, veterans, and engineering officials of the Ground Force and the 40th Sahib al-Zaman (pbuh) engineering group of the IRGC in the Sourah hall of the Arts Center. In this program, which was conducted by Javad Aini, Generals Javad Azimifar, deputy engineer of the IRGC Ground Force, Ali Akbar Puri Rahim, one of the former commanders of the 40 Sahib al-Zaman٬s engineers, and Abul Qasem Tabatabaei, the head of IRGC Ground Force Engineering, shared their memories.

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The first narrator of the program was General Javad Azmifar, born in Yasouj. At the beginning of his speech, he who has the title of the father of engineering of the IRGC ground force, in the beginning of his speech, he honored the martyrs of the trench builders of the IRGC engineering, Jihad Construction, other engineering martyrs and the martyrs of the 40th engineering group of Sahib al-Zaman (pbuh), as well as the engineering martyrs who defended the shrine of Hassan Shatari and Abdullah Iskandari, who were among the first combat engineering forces during the holy defense period and after. He added: In a historical period after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the division of present-day Pakistan and India by the British, as well as during the Pahlavi rule, before and after the war, and about thirty years after the holy system of the Islamic Republic, and even the governments that thousands They are miles away from the lands of our Islamic homeland, they could never reach the borders of the aristocracy of the homeland. But from 2008 onwards, the determination and dogma of the Supreme Leader was that the system should be established at the geographical top of our Islamic homeland. This action and this great mission was assigned to the IRGC ground forces.

The tools for this work were prepared by the engineering trench builders in West Azarbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Sistan and Baluchistan. If we go from Piranshahr to Sardasht in the northwest of the country, we will reach Badin Abad border post. For years, our people knew Badinabad, Sardasht-Piranshahr as the border of the homeland; unaware that it was fifty kilometers away from the border of the country. The cultural unit of the ground force and the cultural unit of the 40th group introduced the three-way Dalamper[1] border of Turkey, Iraq and Iran to the heights of Bemo, which is on the geographical map, and the area of Media or liberated by the PKK[2] and counter-revolutionary groups and have done a good job in this field.

The narrator continued: One should enter the PKK from Shahu, which is 120 kilometers from the end of Zalawab and Kunshet, with a passport. On a dark night in Ravansar, the PKK group set our police station on fire and twenty-two members of our police force were burned in the fire of anger and hatred of the enemies. But today, we are among the countries that were protected from proxy wars with stable security and the efforts and services of trench builders without engineering trenches. During the presence of their founders, Generals Bahraini, Tabatabaei, Pourrahim, Abu Al-Hasani and Andalib, the legions and groups of trench builders made it impossible for those who were looking for proxy wars to encroach on the territory of our country.

The narrator further said: The same trench builders of the 40th engineering group of Sahib al-Zaman (pbuh) built a road, outpost and turret in the cold of 65 degrees below zero in winter and at 3700 meters altitude of Haj Ibrahim and Qandil. Major General Bagheri said that we wished to send one person to Bamu[3] during the sacred defense period, but this did not happen. But the former 42nd division or today's 42nd engineering group broke Bemo's heart and found nobility in Bemo. Today, from Aras to Bavisi Strait and all parts of the border of the homeland, where terrible insecurity prevailed there until the early 90s, with the actions of the seven engineering groups of the ground forces and with the tact of the respected commander of the ground forces of General Pakpur Corps, a portion of the homeland is in the hands of the American villains. Not supposed to The Revolutionary Guards are standing and guarding Shahneshin, Chehlcheshme[4], Sultan, Dobra and Qandil[5]. Political countries and the whole world of Kurdism look at Qandil like we look at Damavand as a hyacinth and a symbol of the country.

If it were not for the actions of the infantry of the Islamic Republic, the engineering of the infantry units of the IRGC, and the bravery of the martyrs Haj Hassan Shatri, Haj Abbas Eskandari and the sufficiency of Aghadadi, we would have to fight with Salafis and Salafis in Hamedan and Kermanshah. Takfiris were fighting. Abdul Malik Rigi in the southeast had made more than 350 kilometers of the border of the homeland insecure by creating terror. How many heads of Shiites Ali bin Abi Talib and other people were cut off in Darzin near Bam, Tasuki in Godar Nahok and thousands of other places.

He further added: More than two to three thousand vehicles from Pakistan entered the country at night and created terror, terror, kidnapping and smuggling of drugs, weapons and ammunition, until in 1988, together with Major General Shahid Shoushtari and the respected commander of the IRGC Ground Forces. We went to the heights of Fadaki Zahedan and discussed what to do to save Zahedan from this situation. Major General Shushtri's suggestion was that we build a wall around Zahedan, but the commander of the ground forces came to the conclusion that we should enter the border of the homeland. We had never entered Malik Siyakoh[6] either before the revolution or after it. With a fifteen-minute walking distance from the border of Pakistan or Afghanistan, the Salafis and Takfiris would block the transit road of the Islamic Republic and drive Ali's Shiites to the other side of the border. This same group of 40 Sahib al-Zaman (pbuh) was one of the groups that made the black heart of Malik Siahkouh as the white heart of his martyrs safe for the system.

Until today, the engineering groups of the IRGC ground forces have taken all the border gaps, including roads, turrets, outposts, safe communications, water and asphalt, from southern Qarqruk[7] and Malik Siahkoh to nine hundred kilometers from the border of the homeland, and today the Salafis and Takfiris are on the other side of the borders. Both in the northwest and the west and in the southeast, which the Americans and Israelis support, they can never do anything. Today in our country, from the snowy heights of Shahidan and Zinata Bhutan [8] to Nashino and Rajan[9] and to Barzin and Qandilha[10] and Haj Ibrahim[11] and Panesar[12] and Sarsawe[13], where sometimes the snow height is It reaches 8 to 9 meters, and in the heat of 65 degrees in the summer, there is great peace and comfort by the Nehang River[14].

After the words of the narrator, the host of the program pointed to the great service and personality of all engineering martyrs, especially Shatari, who were originally the commanders and founders of the resistance axis and were also martyred in Lebanon, and said: This is enough for the mind to create an image of this character. And that rare event that Christians and Sunnis held a ceremony for his martyrdom; And what beautiful words the martyr Haj Qassem Soleimani said about him; Especially an interpretation to this theme that it is not possible to say to Shahid Shatri that, for example, he conquered a certain place or a certain peak, he conquered hearts.

To be continued…