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ویدیوی ساخت فرزند یک اعدامی سال 61

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=WalEMzb_Akw

And names and details of 4485 Martyrs, of best and brightest of Iran, in English and farsi.....

//asre-nou.net/1385/mordad/27/koshtar/m-liste-koshtar.html

They will never be forgotten, nor will their murderers ever be forgiven......

مملکتِ بی‌ سر و صاحب که میگن، درست میگن

During the first year of war and what seemed to be the height of killing/executing dissidents (mojahedeen mainly) I was picked up by two motor cyclist at gun point in a broad daylight in the middle of busy street. I was taken out of town, beaten and many times mocking that they were going to shoot me in the back if I did not confess. Making a long story short, what I believe saved me was my vacation slip (bargeh morakhasi) from military. Then I was serving near Dezfool at poole karkheh which was a front line and we would get to go home every three weeks or so for about a week.

My dad who is a rather respected person in our town insisted on pressing charges and pushing for the two guys to be identified and to find out why. Well, my dad was made convinced that it is in his and my best interest to not pursue the case with the promise that I will not be harmed again. Later on we learned that some had been picked up and killed just like that, no trial no charges nothing.

I am sure my experince pales to many, but it may be not so uncommon during those years and most likely now.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad

Arj

What a touching story ... Thanks for sharing .

That is the reason for us to support democracy and freedom of speech and do not let ourselves to fall again for another overnight established government.

slowly but surely we shall get there ... 

Injustice

Growing up in 70s, I always heard my uncle's name, who used to be in Shah's jails, in association with 28 Mordad and Mosadegh. Since the suspicious murmurs abruptly came to a hault everytime I approached the livingroom (the locale of the illicits conversation's), I kind of had the feeling that this whole issue is frowned upon and should not be discussed in public. Not to mention my parents' cautions in that regard! 

Until sometime in 1977 when I visited a relative who had been a political prisoner for some time at Evin, and had recently been released, at my uncle's. I learned from my cousins that she'd been enduring such tortures, while in prison, as pulling out the finger nails and cigarette burns. While this 24 year old frail woman (a former honours student at Tehran U) drank her tea and politely replied to her hosts' generic questions and pleasantries, having not had seen an actual political prisoner (or as they called back in the day, Kharabkar) before, I tried to gaze into her eyes in the faint hope of reading something about her thoughts or feelings. Finally when I succeded for a moment, albeit brief, I did not see anything but blankness, as if she had no soul left!

Upon 1979 revolution, there were hopes and talks of the dreaded Evin and the newly built Gohardasht, with state of the art torture chambers, being closed permanently or turned into museums of human rights! Until summer the of 1981, when a cousin of mine was arrested, and (guess what!) sent to Evin. He went in as a vibrant and energetic 25 year old idealist, and walked out a broken 35 year old who looked more like a 55 year old father of six! When I went to visit him, ironically, I saw the same blank look in his eyes!

To make the long story short, as a person who blieves he's seen it all, I sincerely hope that I as an Iranian, and we as the entire nation, would not have to visit another loved one with that blank look in his/her eyes ever again!

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I have just finished listening , actually , it seems that he has a book ...  

I am going to make sure to get it..

Unbelievable

Unbelievable, The exact copy of spanish inquisition.

These people are devil on earth.  

I think he needs to be taken much more seriously than just an interview. He needs to write a book for future generation so these things would not be forgotten.....

Those who were directly in charge of these crimes are not going to get away with this.  History has proven that.  

Revision of History

The post-revolutionary history of Iran is being revised by IR propaganda apparatus shamelessly using scapegoats to whitewash or justify crimes committed by the regime.

We also ought to remember that.....

That the IRI killed about 15,000 people from 1979 to the early 1980s before the "MEK treasonous act". Perhaps Emam Khomeini had a time machine and knew that in the future the MEK leadership would relocate from Paris to Iraq (after the IRI asked France to kick them out), and therefore used the excuse of the MEK moving to Iraq in 1986 as an excuse to execute thousands of MEK and non-MEK in the years 1979-1985. As if the IRI needs an "excuse" to murder thousands of Iranian men and women (both MEK and non-MEK). Yeah, okay...

We ought to remember that.....

The same type of crime, albeit not as pronounce as those days, is happening today in the IRI prisons.

It is also worth remembering that the regime used the MEK treasonous act as a pretext to commit these crimes and repeating the same treasonous act may indeed give another excuse for even greater mass murder of our heroes.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad

فجایع دردناک

اصلانی جوانمردیست که شروع جنایات جمهوری اسلامی را در تیر باران‌های پشتِ بام دبیرستان علوی میداند.  هیچ یک از اصلاح طلبان اسلامی چنین تفسیری از این جنایات ندارد.

Movies and books should be

Movies and books should be written about this horrific crime so the whole world would know about it.

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt

honor

the mass execution of 88 was followed by mek's treason and along with them many others took that route to be murdered by Regim like my 24 yrs old 3rd year college student  tudeee  cousine.

even I

agree with Mr. Parham's comment.

Maziar

The Scars of the Islamic Republic

It is hard to imagine what people went through in those prisons. And the horror is still going on.

I hope that some time soon we can look back at those years as a bad dream. But for these victims, I am not sure that if there will ever be a closure.

 God bless him.

 God bless him. Aslani for President.

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt

Very well spoken!

I like the way he expressed himself.

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