No. 233    |    29 December 2015
   

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Interview with Mehr Ali Ebrahim Nejad

I was just a private (2)

Mehr Ali Ebrahim Nejad is a veteran of the Iraq-imposed war on Iran. He went to the ‎battle forefronts while he was still a teenager and fought for the country 90 months of the ‎‎94-month (nearly 8-year) war. The following is an excerpt of his Oral History Weekly's ‎interview with about on the occasion of the anniversary of Operation Muharram ‎‎(Monday, November 1, 1982). Here is the second episode of his interview with. ‎

Susangerd, Occupation, Liberation (3)‎

An interview with Ghodratollah Bahari

Eleventh of Mehr 1359, we moved by helicopter toward the enemy. A number of Green ‎Beret forces were also in the helicopter and we met them accidentally. Their commander ‎was a First Lieutenant who became Colonel and then an adviser. We came and reached to ‎Susangerd-Hamidieh road, where we saw Iraqi tanks have mired. They surrounded by ‎water and their crew have fled. We didn’t have anything to do with the mired tanks. They ‎were also no problem for helicopters.‎

Military Service at the Verge of the third decade (2) ‎

I said: I don’t remember you sir! ‎

Interview with Haj Mohammad Hashem Soleimani ‎

I was just appointed as a guard. We were in Shemiran Palace. When we changed post the previous ‎guard didn’t tell me that Shapoor Alireza [1] has left the palace. When I started my shift I didn’t ‎know Shapoor Alireza is out of the palace. It was dark at night that I saw car lights from the road ‎and a car was closing in. It flashed light. We had closed the gates. He said: hey guard! Open the ‎door! I said: Sir! I don’t know you. He said: I just left few minutes ago. ‎

A Look at Shahrokh Meskoob Memoirs

In the Mood of Youth Age

Kamshad expressed his reasons to edit and arrange Meskoob, s notes in the introduction and he ‎claims: “I know many individuals do not like, but I'm sure this is what Shahrokh would like to ‎do if he was alive”. He says in some parts of the notes: “I’m bored of this game, I'm always busy ‎with my honor protection, I’m always thinking about honor, and hiding the names of the people. ‎

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Air Raid to Al-Waleed (1)‎
The Story of Demolishing Fighters and the Equipment in Al-Waleed Triple Military Bases ‎Known as H-3‎

By: Brigadier General Ahmad Mehrnia
Tehran, Sooreh Mehr Publications Company
‎2010 (Persian Version)‎
Translated by: Zahra Hosseinian


In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? (1) Did He not bring their ‎stratagem to naught, (2) And send against them swarms of flying creatures, (3) Which pelted them ‎with stones of baked clay, (4) And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)? (5)‎

 


‎“I would say that this war is a treasure. Could we be able to extract the treasure or not? ‎Now that there is no war anymore, and we don’t want ourselves to make a war which will ‎be the appearance arena of Revolution values, that eight-year war must feed our history. ‎It should be display what there really was in our battle arena in the eight years of war - ‎when the resistance spirit and sacrifice has expressed with sincerity.” ‎
‎(Excerpts from the Supreme Leader’s remarks in a meeting with members of Hoze Honari’s ‘Bureau ‎for the Literature and Art of Resistance’, July 1991)‎


 
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