Imam Musa al-Sadr from perspective of "Agreed Followers"

Oral history and loyalty to tune and literature of narrator

He did not like anyone dictate people. This behavior was for his athletic attitude. He cooperated with party "Devotees of Islam" martyr Navab Safavi, and for the sake of friendship with the heroes of Tehran, whenever he message them for problems related to Ayatollah Kashani, each of them gathered a lot of people. Ayatollah Sayed Morteza Mostajabi has such a character. He wrote in his book" Agreed Followers" about his fragmented Memories, family of Sadr and Imam Musa al- Sadr. The book is set in the form of an interview and is one of the books in the form of oral history collection about Imam Musa al-Sadr that have been published by Cultural Research Institute.

Torture, homesickness, resistance, and the feeling of freedom…

Oral history of freed POWs and memoirs of captivity as narrated by four books

16th of August every year is marked as a special day in the history of the eight-year Iraqi imposed war against Iran. On this day in 1990, the Iranian combatants who had been taken as captives came back to Iran. With hands free of arms but with hearts armed with faith and resistance, they preserved the privacy of their own defense even more than the war years. One way of respecting their resistance and remembering the sweet moments of freedom is to refer to their memoirs. The website of Iranian Oral History has reviewed four books about the account of freed POWs in order to commemorate that special day in 26 years ago.

Overview of the 11th volume of “Closed Doors Era”

When Seyyed Ali Akbar Abutorabi changed the lifestyle of captives

August 17, 1990; there was whirl in the border of Iran and Iraq; one of the first days of exchange of Iranian and Iraqi war captives. That day, one hostage who was freed from Iraqi camps and tasted freedom was a young man by the name of Gholam Abbass Mohammad Hassani. A young man with less than three decades of age who had spent eight years of his youth in prisons of Iraq as a hostage. When Gholam Abbass was taken he wasn’t even 20. Now, that young man is middle aged and is recounting his memories of his days as war hostage; memories that are compiled by the efforts of Seyyed Hossein Yahyavi and published by Ravayat Fath Publication.

Memories of the War and Captive of Azizollah Farrokhi- Part I

Radiotelephones were saying: Go to the moon!

Azizollah Farrokhi, one of the combatants and freedmen of years of the war and during the Iraqi imposed war against Iran. He was born in Tehran in 1342, was interviewed with Iranian Oral History website about his memories of the war and also her captivity in army camps of Saddam. In the first part of this interview, we read Farrokhi memories of the first dispatch to the front until liberation of Khorramshahr.

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