No. 597    |    19 August 2023
   

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The 342nd Night of Memory-3

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 ...

Moving to Paveh

The terrible news of Paveh reached the center, and the army and the Guards Corps were ordered to help, but it did not give results, and it was feared that Paveh would also suffer the fate of Marivan and a heinous massacre by the Democratic Party and other prominent leftists would take place there. On behalf of the then government, I was given a mission to personally go to Paveh and try to ...

Book Review

Travel to War Days

Travel to War Days is the memoirs of Amir Brigadier Genera Sayed Hesam Hashemi, fellow warrior of Martyr Ali Sayad Shirazi. Under the title of the book, the word "Commanders" can be seen in silver color and the shape of a stamp. The author of the book is Saeed Alamian and it was edited by Mehdi Oghabi. The first edition of Travel to War Days was published in 2023 by Khat-e Moghadam Publishing House (Qom) in 320 pages, 1000 copies, and the price of 120,000 Tomans.

Members of Combatant Clergy Association arrested

On one of the nights of the holy month of Ramadan in 1356 (1977), the Central Council of the Combatant Clergy Association held a meeting in the house of Mr. Sheikh Ali Asghar Morvarid, in western Tehran, and we decided to continue the meeting until dawn. Some twenty people including misters professor Motahari, Mahdavi Kani and Mousavi Ardebili and other well-known people were present in the meeting. From there, professor Motahari contacted with the holy Najaf by

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Da (Mother) 58

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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He said, “He’s in a bad way. We can’t bring him in because his screams will wake the others.”

After about an hour, the soldier pointed his hand to the sky and held it there. I told him to lower it several times, but he didn’t respond. I followed his finger and could barely make out something faintly glowing in the distance. “Spotting enemy aircraft?” I asked.


 
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