Excerpts from the memoirs of Valiollah Chehpour

Explosion in the Prime Minister Office

The day the Prime Minister Office exploded in Pasteur Square and Mr. Mohammad Ali Rajaei, the President, and Mr. Bahonar, the Prime Minister, were martyred, I and Mr. Ashraf Eslami, who was then the Deputy and Legal Representative of Prime Minister, were having lunch on the restaurant at ground floor of the building, when suddenly there was a terrible explosion from the upper floor of the building where the meeting room of ...

The 316th Night of Memory – 1

Memoirs from captivity period by the Takfirists

The 316th program of Night of Memory was held online in Aparat website on 27th of August 2020. In this show, "Mustafa Beidaghi", the captive freed from the hands of the Takfirists and "Brigadier General Ali Valizadeh", a Takhribchi or deminer during the imposed war retold their memoirs. Davoud Salehi was present as the host. The first narrator of the 316th Night of Memory show is one of the 48 Iranians ...

Book Review

"Rifleman"

"Rifleman" is the title of the memoirs of Ali Hassan Ahmadi, which was published under effort of Alireza Kasraei and Surah Mehr, the Office of Culture and Resistance Studies in Kermanshah province in 2019. Ali Hassan Ahmadi is the author of a famous and thought-provoking photograph of the war , which sparked the writing of his memoirs. He is a Basiji during the Ashura operation in Mimak , when he realizes that ...

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