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Nojeh Coup
11-Jul-2008
Today is the anniversary of Nojeh Coup.
On July 11, 1980 The Nojeh Coup was an attempt to overthrow the newly established IRI and the government of Banisadr.
It is hard to speculate the different path history could have taken, but I suspect had they succeeded many of us would be living different lives.
I remember the first time I read about this coup, I had joined the Library of School of African and Oriental studies, (part of London university) and like a kid in a sweet shop I was going through their fantastic Persian books and their archives and periodical section with some of the magazines going back to 1950s.I ordered the Etelaat rolling slides which had all the front page headlines, and I put it on a roll and scanned the images in my mind like watching a B&W film.
I looked at the roll from 1979 to 1981, and the drastic change in the images was like shrapnel of glass piercing my brain.The images of shot service men wrapped in transparent sheets of plastic, smudged with clotted blood were so haunting that sitting at the table in that quiet, large hall, my nose started to bleed. It is a moment that I would not forget.
A coup at that time, with the angry mood of the nation would have been against the will of the people and I suspect would have been met with a violent reaction from the people rioting on the streets, sometimes the line between being a champion of the nation and being a traitor is a thin one.
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> Falls Chruch VA
by Another Lost Iranian in Faranse (not verified) on Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:50 PM PDTA couple of years ago, when I came to the US I was lookong for an appartment in Northern VA. I met this old persian man in Falls Church from an ad in the Washington Post. He and a few other guys in this Falls Church apparment complew were survivors of the Nojeh Coup. They were some much nostalgia and sorrow in this flat that I just could't stand it more than an hour or so.
They tried to save their country more than 20 years ago, and ended in some Dc suburb, lonely and lost.
Q
by Parham on Sat Jul 12, 2008 09:04 AM PDTWhat makes you say it "may have lost us Khuzestan to Saddam"?
What I want to know is what's the logic behind that.
fully agree
by Q on Sat Jul 12, 2008 03:39 AM PDTA coup at that time, with the angry mood of the nation would have been against the will of the people and I suspect would have been met with a violent reaction from the people rioting on the streets, sometimes the line between being a champion of the nation and being a traitor is a thin one.
That's exactly why it didn't succeed.
I don't see how it could have possibly worked. It pretty much depended on a large mass movement in public that would have had to have been already there and well rooted.
But if there was some success, it would have been labeled a foreign plot to overturn the popular will and very well may have lost us Khuzestan to Saddam.
Dear Safa Ali
by ramintork on Sat Jul 12, 2008 03:33 AM PDTI think more people should write about this event.
Perhaps you or your family should write about this from a personal perspective.
I know there is a new interest and there has been a recent publication.
There are web pages listing the name of these individuals. May they rest in peace.
//www.iiaf.net/history/commemorates.html
My grandpa was in this coup
by Safa Ali on Fri Jul 11, 2008 08:05 PM PDTmy grandpa was in this coup, he was captured and tortured for 2 months and then executed
This happened 9 years before i was born though
Dear Jamshid
by ramintork on Fri Jul 11, 2008 04:12 PM PDTPlease don't be another reader who simply zooms in on a single sentence like a guided missile and get your jugular vein heated.
It is with the benefit of hindsight that we make our judgements.
One year after revolution, at that moment in time people still supported the regime and would have seen the coup as a foreign sponsored meddling similar to the ones we've had before so in fact I wasn't speaking for myself I was speaking about the mood of the people and their perception of heros and traitors.
I personally see these men as heros for giving their lives for a desperate last attempt to save Iran from the darkness that was to come.
Speak for yourself
by jamshid on Fri Jul 11, 2008 02:19 PM PDT"sometimes the line between being a champion of the nation and being a traitor is a thin one."
Those involved in the Nojeh coup were heroes who died for Iran. There is no "thin" line of any kind. We all know Iran would have been a better place had they succeeded.
Not folk Heros ...
by Ali P. on Fri Jul 11, 2008 02:16 PM PDTbut heros nevertheless.
Some of the greatest Iranian heros
by mahmoudg on Fri Jul 11, 2008 09:40 AM PDTOut of the coup came Iranian heroes such as General Ayat Mohageghi and Major General Saeed Mehdiyoun. I am postive after the removal of this Arab regime they will become folk heroes.