No. 629    |    31 March 2024
   

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A section of the memories of a freed Iranian prisoner; Mohsen Bakhshi

Programs of New Year Holidays

Without blooming, without flowers, without greenery and without a table for Haft-sin , another spring has been arrived. Spring came to the camp without bringing freshness and the first days of New Year began in this camp. We were unaware of the plans that old friends had in this camp when Eid (New Year) came.

News of Oral History (February-March 2024/Esfand 1402 SH)

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The Last Day of Bloody Year of 1360 (1981)

Letters of Fahimeh: The Eighth Letter

By the (Steeds) That run, with panting (breath), And strike sparks of fire, and push home the charge in the morning, and raise the dust in clouds the while, and penetrate forthwith into the midst (of the foe) En masse; Truly Man is, To his Lord, Ungrateful; And to that (fact) He bears witness (By his deeds); And violent is he In his love of wealth.

Attack on Halabcheh narrated

With wet saliva, we are having the lunch which that loving Isfahani man gave us from the back of his van when he said goodbye in the city entrance. Adaspolo [lentils with rice] with yoghurt! We were just started having it when the plane dives, we go down and shelter behind the runnel, and a few moments later, when the plane raises up, we also raise our heads, and while eating, we see the high sides ...

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Da (Mother) 90

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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Chapter Twenty Two: Iraqi Prisoners

We were in the area around Arya Lane in a truck with three wounded we were taking to the Taleqani Hospital when we saw a man standing beside the road waving his arms.


 
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