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    Testament of a killer and torturer

    I was searching among some old books and accidentally found a pamphlet which contained a letter by Bahman Naderipour (known as Tehrani) to ayatollah Talegani which was published by the islamists shortly after the 1979 revolution in Iran.

    Tehrani was an important figure in Savak (secret police during the Pahlavi era in Iran), he was a torturer who specialized in women's torture. On a rare massacre in 1975, he single handedly shoot 9 political prisoners to death. 7 Fadaian and 2 Mujaheds were killed by him including Bijan Jazani, one of the founders of OIPFG. The regime claimed that prisoners were killed while they were trying to escape, but how come all of those prisoners were killed on the scene and not even a single person made it to a hospital? Nobody believed that lie.

    After the revolution, he was left behind by Pahlavis who didn't need him anymore; they filled their luggage with money and jewelry and run. He was arrested. Although some employees of Savak were utilized to rebuild a secret police organization for new islamist rulers and some of them are still active as "teacher"s for young killers and torturers in Iran, Tehrani was too notorious and known by public, employing him could only lead to a public scandal. On the other hand, new rulers had to pretend that their regime was different from Pahlavi's. A "revolutionary court" sentenced him to death and he was killed shortly after, while his crimes were not investigated properly.

    Before his execution, he sent a letter to ayatollah Talegani and proposed to offer his services to islamist state in exchange for his life (although he doesn't explain his intention this clearly). Islamists had no need for his services and rejected his offer. But the important thing is: what services was he offering?

    In his letter, Tehrani explains that the most serious treat which the new government is facing is communism. He predicted that the next struggle will be between islamists and communists (which became true). He mentions the ways to fight communism in different fields, mainly: culture, economy and security. He offered his service in the security field (secret police) and made suggestions about the other fields.

    The interesting thing is: although he was executed, the government put almost all of his suggestions into action, as if it was a death-bed testament. I'm not saying that this was deliberately (I even doubt that any important official has read his letter), but it proves that when it comes to progressive and revolutionary ideas and activists, all of reactionaries have something in common. A former Savak killer and torturer knows what is best for the new islamist regime and his suggestions are put into action.

    In short, his suggestions were:

    1- creating a secret police organization like former Savak and sending agents and spies to communist organizations.

    2- wiping the revolutionary spirit from people's minds and "normalization" of people's lives by entertainment and diverting attentions from revolutionary ideas to ordinary matters and everyday life, using religion against communism, religious way of raising the children, building mosques inside universities and factories (for easing organization of religious people and creating an excuse for bringing non student and non worker people to universities and factories, because communists were in majority in universities and big factories), sending priests to remote parts of the country for religious preaching, separating the religious (believers in governmental type of religion) and non religious people in different associations and …

    3- reducing class differences, sending government supporters to villages to help farmers with ploughing and such tasks, improving countries infrastructure, introducing a fair labour law and …

    Not surprisingly, third point was something that both regimes were unable to accomplish (if they were willing to do so at all), Because of the backward capitalist and pre-capitalist relationships which made Iran completely dependent on foreign imperialists and ruined its economy.

    The preface of this pamphlet is also interesting. The writer of preface who seems to be a young idealist islamist explains that Tehrani is trying to deceive people and their leaders, and that people should guard the unity in their ranks, they should not let the religious differences to separate them, these suggestions are fraud and … but his ideal government followed the line which was drawn by a former Savak member. Poor writer! It wasn't Tehrani who was trying to deceive, it was the writer of that preface who was deceiving himself! I won't be surprised to find out that the young idealist islamist has developed to a present day conservative hardliner, and if not he would be just an exception! It was exactly the islamist regime who rejected the idea of unity and officially divided people based on religion and sex. The islamists purged anyone who stood against them using the same methods of the previous regime or worse.

    The life of Khamenei, who is the present supreme leader, is a proof of what line have the islamists followed. Khamenei was a political prisoner during the Pahlavi era. But when he became one of the rulers, he pursued his former cell mate and forced him to flee from Iran! He even jailed the lawyer who had defended him in a Pahlavi's court because the lawyer rejected the new regime's policies!


    So rest in peace Mr Tehrani! Your will is being followed!

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