JJ jaan,

Why the post look weird like this??????

Best,

Masoud

Click on "Edit" link under the text and fix the line spaces in the text. Also your Persian headline will only look correct if you are posting something in the Persian section. 

Dear Masoud.

Good to see you here again. Welcome back.

Thanks for the good data on this sad chapter of our history. Shah's regime indeed paved the way for the islamist rule in our country.

Having said that, I tend to judge people by what they say and do today rather than what they said and did 35 years ago. Those who oppose the Fascist Islamist rule AND support and campaign for a democratic alternative for Iran are on my side, no matter their past. Those whon stick to the past, trying to settle the old scores whilst Iran is being ripped apart by Islamist fascists are dinasours  of no relevance to young people of Iran. I know very well you are not one of them.

JJ jaan,

1. I cut and paste from my Word document, but it does not accept the paste.

2. I made the spaces after I used the "Edit" link. 

3. Why the links are not live?

Thanks,

Masoud

Roozbeh jaan,

Dorood my friend.  I hope you have been fine.  Thank you for all your fantastic comments and links.  I have been following them.

Shokoh Mirzadegi and Esmail Nooriala have been attacking JM and INF.  We are defending ourselves and attacking them back by discussing the truth.

Best,

Masoud

Great investigating work Mr. Masoud. Could you by any chance explain Mr. Fetanat’s role in this whole fiasco? You may recall that on his latest comment he said that even Ms. Mirzadegi has no say in this matter and all questions have to be directed to him (baa man tarafid) I thought about that sentence a lot and all evidence including his own insistence leads me to believe that he had a larger role than just a petty informer within SAVAK organization. Too bad we are not worthy of hearing the truth and by asking a simple question after all these years we get nothing but insults and accusations from all sides. I for one only want to know the truth and have no affiliations with any groups although I have expressed my opinion about Royalists being out of touch with the real world on many occasions.   

Regards,

Kamal 

Dear Kamal,

Let me discuss the basic facts as I understand them.  Then, one may discuss various interpretations.

1. About 1350 (1971-72) several individuals, who were in their 20s talk about the possibility of killing the Shah.  Among them were Khosrow Golesorkhi and Shokoh Mirzadegi.  They reach the conclusion that it was not a feasible project.  And abandon the whole discussion.  This was NOT a group or even mahfel.  There were merely several young persons who were communists or leftists.  That was the end of this.

2.  About 1351 or  early 1352, Golesorkhi and several other young leftists decide to form a mahfel (an informal get together) of several young leftists to read and discusss Marxist books.  The SAVAK finds out about them and arrests them.  These persons were not engaged in any activities.  Their SOLE crime was that they wanted to read and discuss Marxist books.  So, in 1352 (1973-74), Golesorkhi was in prison for the crime of reading Marxists books.

3. In 1350 or so, Amir Hussein Fetanat, was part of a communist group that wanted to hijack an airplane.  He was arrested.  In prison, Fetanat begins collaborating with SAVAK.

4. In 1352, Mr. Reza Alamehzadeh tells a few trusted leftist friends that when in few months he is going to get an award (for his film making) from Ms. Farah Diba Pahlavi, he would stand up and talk about political prisoners and lack of freedom of expression in Iran.  A friend then tells others that it would be a good idea to do something duing that ceremony such as kidnapping Farah Pahlavi and then exchnage her for political prisoners.  Another friend then thinks that Reza Pahlavi might attend the ceremony and that they might be able to kidnap Reza Pahlavi and exchange him for political prisoners.

5. Someone in this group of individuals talks to Keramat Daneshiyan about it.  Daneshiyan was sympathetic to the Sazeman Cherikhay Fadaiyan Khalgh (a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group).  Daneshiyan was a close friend of Fetanat.  Daneshiyan did not know that Fetant was a SAVAK collaborator.  He had assumed that Fetanat was part of the Fadaiyan group.  Daneshiyan talks to Fetanat and asks if he could get them weapons.  Fetanat informs SAVAK about the  group and tells the group that he would get them weapons.

6. SAVAK begins surveillance of the various individuals for many months (about 8 months or so). 

7. Shokoh Mirzadegi was one of the many individuals who had talked about kidnapping Farah Pahlavi and/or Reza Pahlavi. 

8. In 1352, SAVAK tells Fetanat to take a car (which SAVAK had put weapons in it) to an individual in the group (part of the Daneshiyan group).  At the last moment Fetanat decides not to take the car (with weapons) to the individual because he thought that Parviz Sabeti (the truely evil man who was the SAVAK official and the "mastermind" of much of the episode) was planning to kill him and take credit for having solved a major terrorist action.

9. SAVAK arrests about 200 individuals.  Of course Golesorkhi was NOT at all prt of this group, and did NOT even know who most of these folks were.  Golesorkhi had been in prison  for about  about 7 or so months for having gotten together with a handful of persons solely to read and discuss Marxist books.  Among the 200 persons arrested were Daneshiyan, Allamehzadeh, as well as Shokoh Mirzadegi.

10. According to virtually all the sources, in prison Ms. Shokoh Mirzadegi tells SAVAK not only the stuff about these individuals, but also tells SAVAK about the totally unrelated matter of her discussion with Goloesorkhi two years earlier!!!!!!!!!!   Then, SAVAK brings Golesorkhi from the prison where he was held to where this group of 200 prisoners.

11. Obviously, SAVAK interrogators knew full well that Golesorkhi had absolutely nothing to do with the discussions of this group in 1352.  But Parviz Sabeti made up a whole story that was utterly false.  Sabeti, who is truly evil, charlatan, liar man, makes up the story that a group composed of these "communists" wanted to kill and or kidnap Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi .  He shows the weapons (that no one of them had even seen) on tv.  The trial is shown on national tv. 

12. At the first trial, several of the accused are senenced to execution (e.g., Golesorkhi, Daneshiyan, Alamehzadeh).   Ms. Shokoh Mirzadegi got  3 years in prison because she  publically apologized to the Shah.  Reza Alamehzadeh who had not even discussed any kidnapping of anyone, and was not part of the discussion of getting any weapons, was given execution.  At the second appeals court held shortly thereafter, the executions of Golesorkhi and Daneshiyan were upheld and they were executed the following day.  Alamehzadeh and others were kept in prison until the revolution when they were freed in late 1978 or early 1979.

When Golesorkhi was arrested he was only 26 years old.  He was executed when he was about 28 or so.

Fetanat was only 22 when he was arrested. 

Now lets discuss some perceptions and interpretations.

1. The most evil person is of course Parviz Sabeti.  He is a liar, a charlatan, a Nazi type murderer and torturer.  He is directly responsible for the killings of Bijan Jazani and 8 or so of his prisonmates.   Sabeti took these political prisoners out of Evin prison, and shot them in cold blood.  In the 1970s, one of the tortures was a metal bed that electricity would go through it which made it hot.  Political prisoners were burned alive on this electirical oven.  Male and female political prisoners were raped.  Pulling of finger nails and toe nails was common as were burning with various devices.

Parvis Sabeti wanted to show the power of SAVAK and intimidate the people and intellectuals in particular.  He was a shameless charlatan with utterly no conscience what so ever.  He murdered and tortured any poor soul at will, even individuals whose sole crime was reading books.

2. Fetanat is the second person at fault here.  He was a SAVAK collaborator and infiltrator.  He even sold out his close friend Keramat Daneshiyan. 

3. Shokoh Mirzadegi is the 3rd person at fault here.  She lo dad Khosrow Golesorkhi.  There was absolutely no reason for her to tell SAVAK about Golesorkhi, who had absolutely nothing to do with the individuals in 1352 talking about doing something.

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1. Truly decent human being here is Reza Alamehzadeh.  He stood for his ideals and did not sell out to SAVAK.  He is a democratic leftist today.  He believes in democracy and progressive social change.  He continues to make wonderful documentary films.  He is a true intellectual.

2. Ms. Atefeh Gorgin is another truely decent human being.   She is honest and thoughtful.  She is a proressive (and I think democratic) intellectual.

3. Mr. Golesorkhi was a young man.  Of course he was wrong in his beliefs.  But lets remember he was only 26 years old.  During the terribly oppressive years under the Shah, one could and did go to prison merely for reading books!!!!!!!!!   One main reason for the lack of intellectual development of our intellectuals was the utterly oppressive nature of the Pahlavi era, where books were banned and people would get arrested and tortured for studying books. 

When the Shah murdered the best of the leftists, only second or third rate leftists survived.  Had top leftists such as Jazani not been murdered by the Shah, charlatans like Farrokh Negahdar could not have taken over the Fadaiyan.  Jazani had explicitly told SAVAK and his supporters that if the Shah stopped oppression and allowed them to be politically active, they would stop armed struggle.  The Shah didnot even allow monarchists to have their own organizations independent from him.  The Shah even oppressed the non-violent middle of the road liberal democrats of JM.

4. Mr. Daneshiyan also stood by his ideals.  We might disagree and condemn his ideals.  However, he did not lo dad anyone.  He did not apologize to the fascist Shah.  I disagree with his ideology and his method of struggle.  But the question is how would he behave in a democratic political system.  Under the Shah's brutal fascistic rule, civil society movements (other than Islamic ones) were harshly oppressed with arrests, torture, murder, and executions.

5. In conclusion, I agree with Ms. Atefeh Gorgin that the main loser was the Shah (and his fascist officials such as Parviz Sabeti).  The absolute oppressive situation they created made the huge majority of the population (rightly) hate the monarchists.  However, we the Iranian people still suffer from the horribly oppressive politics andhistory that the monarchits and the fundamentalist terrorist have established in Iran.

May our people learn from our oppressive and dictatorial past and learn to resolve our differences peacefully, air our views openly, read and learn, and accept the results in pluralitic democratic periodic elections.  Hopefully, our people learn noy to fall victim to deceptions and for dictatorial insitutions such as Vali Faghih, king, president-for-life, etc. 

My 2 cents,

Masoud

The sentence should be:

Sabeti ordered the political prisoners out and had them shot dead in cold blood.