No. 591    |    8 July 2023
   

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The 340th Session of Night of Memory-2

The Trace of Blood

The 340th session of night of memory, titled “Radd-e Khoon (trace of blood),” aimed at memorializing security [defense] martyrs was held in Hozeh Honaris Sooreh Hall on Thursday, October 27, 2022. In this session, Mrs. Azarvand, the wife of martyr security defender Hossein Taghipour, Mrs. Rezvaneh Dabagh, the daughter of the late Mrs. Marzieh Hadidchi Dabagh, and Sardar (General) Mohammad Kothari shared their memories and words. Davood Salehi was presenter of this night of memory.

Book Review

Entitled Commander of Destruction

The book "Commander of Destruction" is the rare oral memoirs of the martyrs of the holy defense warriors, written by Hossein Adhami. This book is the result of 43 hours of interviews in 19 sessions of approximately two to three hours from September 2014 to September 2016. During the interview, the narrators wife, Mrs. Mehri Jafari, was also present, and according to the author of the book, her words played a significant role in completing the memoirs.

Marivan Conspiracy

Memories of Martyr Mustafa Chamran

Twenty-Five local Kurdish guards lived in Marivan, who were from Marivan, and had a house there, and their only fault was that they believed in the Islamic Revolution of Iran and did not want to follow the left parties. Hundreds of armed members of the left parties entered Marivan on July 14, 1979. They surrounded the guards, killed half of them, and injured or scared away the rest. One of the wounded guards was decapitated with a mosaic, ...

Oral history news for Khordad 1402 (May-June 2023)

According to the website of Iranian Oral History, "News of the Month" is the title of a series of reports in the site. The reports take a glance at the news related to the subject of the website on written and cyber media. What follows is the news for Khordad 1402: In an interview with IBNA (Iran Book News Agency), Gholamreza Azizi, a researcher in the area of Sacred Defense said, ...

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Da (Mother) 52

The Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni

Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni

Translated from the Persian with an Introduction by Paul Sprachman

Persian Version (2008)

Sooreh Mehr Publishing House

English Version (2014)

Mazda Publishers

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“Fine. Now don’t dawdle. Get back as fast as you can, so I won’t get anxious worrying about where you are.”

“Okay,” he said.

As I stood there watching him leave, my eyes filled with tears. 


 
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