No. 682    |    19 April 2025
   

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Baqubah Camp: Life among Nameless Prisoners

A Review of the Book “Brothers of the Castle of the Forgetful”: Memoirs of Taher Asadollahi

"In the morning, a white-haired, thin captain who looked to be twenty-five or six years old came after counting and having breakfast, walked in front of everyone, holding his waist, and said, "From tomorrow on, when you sit down and get up, you will say, 'Death to Khomeini,' otherwise I will bring disaster upon you, so that you will wish for death."

An Excerpt from the Memoirs of Commander Mohammad Jafar Asadi

It was after the meeting that I stood with Asghar Kazemi, the operations officer, and, acting on Rashid’s orders, we set out to locate a site for Fath Headquarters—approximately fifty kilometers from Ahvaz in the direction of Abadan, near a village called Khezriyeh, situated to the east of the Karun River; precisely the region that constituted the operational domain of the Fath Command.

Escaping the military to influence other military personnel

Based on the assessments I had made, I decided to run away again, and this runaway was a public announcement to hurt the morale of other soldiers. So I thought that when I run away from my unit with this job and that situation, this would have more effect than a hundred circulars and announcements, and it would be published sooner and reach everyone, and everyone would publicly understand that among ...

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The Embankment Wounded Shoulders – 2
Diary of a rescuer

Sabah Piri
Translated to English by M.B. Khoshnevisan
Persian Version (1990)
Sooreh Mehr Publications

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The intense physical training resumed, this time at the Imam Hussein (AS) barracks in Tehran. Unlike before, strict discipline and respect for military principles were required.


 
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