Memories of Abbas Jahangiri
Machine Translation Edited by Mandana Karimi
2026-8-19
Engineer Abbas Jahangiri, a fighter during the Holy Defense era, was a guest on the 287th Shab Khatereh (Night of Memories) program (January 2017). He talked about Operation Valfajr 2 and friends from the Mufid School. Jahangiri said: “My parents wouldn’t let me go to the front. One day I told my mother we were going to Mashhad. If you have any prayers, tell them. In my mind, Mashhad means the place of martyrdom and we are going to the place of martyrdom! The first time I was able to go to the front, it was like this. I was wrestling and I was in good physical condition. I went to the redeployment officer and said, ‘Give me a sheet, I want to go to the front.’ He asked, ‘Do you have a file here?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, maybe I do.’ He asked my name and left. He came back and said that it seems like your file was lost. I said, "It doesn't matter, just make another file for me so I can go to the front." In short, he made me a file and I was on my way. I went to the war zone with Martyr Hamid Salehi. Martyr Salehi had participated in irregular warfare with Martyr Dr. Mustafa Chamran since he was 16. I went to the heights of Haj Omran with this martyr in Operation Wal Fajr 2. Hamid wanted me to be safe. He and I were passing one night. He was asleep and I was awake. We were on the heights of Haj Omran. I felt that a few people were coming up. I woke Hamid up and told him about this. I had a grenade in my hand, I told him that I would go from the other side and if I felt the sound was close, I would engage them and you attack from the other side. I was so clumsy that when those sounds got louder, I put my finger in the ring of the grenade to pull it out. I had not straightened the pin of the grenade from the back and was just trying in vain. For a moment I thought to myself that in movies they pull the pin and drop it. In short, I pushed and straightened the back of the pin. The ring came out and I threw the grenade, then I started counting and I saw that it didn’t explode! I told Hamid that their grenades are useless, they don’t explode! The sound continued and we threw the second grenade at the Iraqis. The grenade shrapnel swept the entire surface of the embankment. If the first grenade had exploded, I would have actually pierced Hamid. For a few days I would have thanked God that I didn’t kill Hamid’s brother myself.”
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