Abolfazle Tavakkoli Bina & the terror of mansour


Mr. Abolfazle Tavakkoli Bina, one of the central members of “jamiat moatalefeh islami” says a bout the terror of mansour (the time prime minister”. After Imam’s exile to Turkey, “jamiat moatalefeh islami” could not sit still& not do any useful work, for this sake, one day in the house of Mr Aala mir mohammad-e- Sadeghi, a meeting took from by central members, announcement issuing has any useful effect & for breaking the strangulation atmosphere, which covered all across the country, a hard effective blow must strike the regime. After many arguments, at the end the group members reached the conclusion that shah, Mr. Ne-emotollah- Nassiri (the head of savak& Hassan Alli-e- Mansur (the time prime minister) are religious mischief makers on earth (mofsed-e-felarz) must be abolished. After the approval of this religious order (Hokm) , it’s religious permission was obtained from “Ayatollah-e-Milani” it’s performing was given to the armed branch of “jamiat –e-heyat- islami”.

At the head of “jamiat moatalefeh islami” were martyr Araghi, Haj Sadegh-e-Amani,& in the lower rank martyrs mahammad-e-Bokharaee, Saffare-e-Harardi, Niknezhad& Seyyed Ali-e-Andarzgoo.

For the first operation, Mansour was chosen. Its main reason was that mansour was the principal performer of capitulation approval in two national & senate parliaments, the Islamic leader, (his majesty imam Komeini) was exiled by his order. For this reason the control consulting members of “jamiat moatalefeh islami” reached the determination to kill him first, for which martyr Bokharaee (amember of the armed branch, was given the responsibility to carry it out.

By this settlement, when mansour, as scheduled, entered the Baharestan square at about 10:10 Am. & got off the car in front of the parliament door, martyr Bokharaee, with a letter in hand, pretending that he wants to offer a personal claim to the prime minister, went towards him& raised his weapon & fired, the first bullet stroke his stomach, the martyr Bokharaee run away promptly & left the scone. After some moments, the guards become conscious& chased Mr. Bokharaee & that late man, when running fast, stepped on. A piece office & fell down, so he was in the hands of police man. On the weapon, by which Bokharaee terrored mansour, some slogans were curved, which clearly explains his friend’s & his own aims for this terror.

After his captivity & transferring him to the police station at the Baharestan square, Niknezhad, Reza saffar Harandi & Seyyed Ali-e-andarzgoo, went to shuh square & as arranged, in the beginning of shahre – Rey road, ha a meeting with Haj Sadegh –e-Amani, & delivered their we weapons to him & went to their own home. After that the central members were captured & finally & I well remember that at the same night about 60 other people were arrested, some of whom knew nothing about the matter.


Ghezel Ghaleh prison & savak behaviour


At 9: Pm , I (Abolfazle Tavakkoli Bina) was in Ghezel Ghaleh prison just three solid hours , the savak investigator, without any words inquired me. At the end, colonel Afzali came,& got my inquiry text & went out,& after saying some unsuitable statements, said this person (me), has been arrested several times & has cheated me,& I at the same time, heard my friends cries who were being tortured at the adjacent room.

Then they took me to the colonel Mowlavi’s room (the head of Tehran savak). He started to investigate at that place & at the beginning asked me about the mansure’s murder & said, Do you know Araghi & amani? I said “yes”. He asked: How long is it that you have acquainted with those two? I simply replied that I have known them for they are good people & we became familiar with each other in mosque.

He said: talk about mansour’s murder.

I said: I have no information about this.

A soon as I announced that I have no news about the murder of maosur, some staffs attacked me & started to beat me, & this questioning & answering was repeated for three times, but for the third time they made me. To sleep back wards & began to beat me with a thick electric cable. The cable pulses were so painful that all my bock swelled,& because of it I became unconscious. After whipping me they took me to a ruined yard, beside the newly built Ghezel Ghaleh building & quitted me there.

At 7: a.m they moved me again for inquiries to the room. In inquiries, h repeated the answers of the night before, announced that I know nothing about mansour’s terror. Finally, without any confession by me, the inquiry ended,& they delivered me to prison.

Ghezel Ghaleh had a public yard that in each of it’s east& west sides, there had been located twenty individual cells.

They jailed me in one of western individual cell, & this work went on for 30 days& nights. During the researching, the conditions were very hard,& there was not rest, except for two or three hours a day, the reason was that they frequently moved me to the cell& brought me back,& gave no chance for sleeping or rest.

In their questionings, I constantly insisted at this point that I am a “Heyati” & in “heat” we have Rowzeh Khani a flag that is clear & obvious, but the questioners wanted me to confess that I am a member of the central delegation of “jamiat moatalefeh islami”.


Ghezel Ghaleh connections with other co-challengers (Mr. Hashemi Rafsangani).


In Ghezel Ghaleh, the individual cell, had a window, by the dimensions of 40*40 cm, which Dr, Ali-e-Amini, had ordered to provide them, in his prime ministry period. Of course, the windows had been welded by diagonal iron belts, so that through the windows, the yard could not be seen, but the voices could be heard.

One day, near the sunset time, h heard the Hashemi’s voice form the yard that he was speaking with Mr. Rabbani-e-Amlashi & two other people. I rapidly, shouted from my cell, Hashemi, Hashemi.

He recognized my tone, & said are “are you Mr. Tavakkoli? I said: yes, He said: what is the news? I said: the conditions are very difficult& the pressure is too high. This short dialogue ended here, & I had no news about Mr. Hashemi, till after “AidNuruz” (1344=19654), a report had been received by Tehran “savak” form Qum that Mr. Nassiri, the chief of savak, has been in list of to be murdered,& in the session that his murder has been approved, Mr. Tavakkoli (me) Araghi, Hashemi & bahadoran have been present.

According to this report, perhaps, have shifted Mr. Hashemi, who has been in general prison to eastern individual cell,& have put him under investigation& torturing.

After sending the Qom report to Tehran about the Nassiri’s terror, in spite of that my & Mr Hashemi’s inquiries, had been ordered, they called us again for investigation. In one of these inquiries, they punished Mr. Hashemi so much that his log bone got broken, became faulty, I heard, at the same time, that they have taken him to “arm hospital No 501” for treatment.

The final night that they took me to the inquiry room, was coincident with the time that had dent Mr. Hashemi to the hospital for foot cure. At that night, they tied me to the bed& disturbed me very much, but they never were successful to gain any confession.

After about one month inquiry, when they failed to gain any information from us, in “Kakh” adventure, after the unsuccessful attempt for murdering “Shah” by the military conscript soldier, Mr. Reza Shamsabadi, they captured a group with the crime of co-operating with him,& brought them all to Ghezel Ghaleh, removed all from there& transferred to “Eshratabad”.


Freedom from prison& establishing “Refah” school


Eventually, my sentence period ended,& I was released on the 21 Esfand, 1967. during the last 6 months period of our prison, without friends, we thought that, which way should we choose after freedom? We all agreed that after freedom, we cannot easily choose a career& leave his majesty Imam alone in his way. On the other hand we were certain that the regime’s security agent would be always plotting us& don’t give us a political activity license. After elaborate considerations & frequent discussions, public cultural profession,& under it’s veiling, try to absorb human power,& chase our political work as before.

The thought of this work was completed day by day& finally we decided to erect the foundation of “Refah” & this job was done after freedom,& the Refah foundation was found.

In the direction of these aims, I & some of my friends, (i.e) Mr. Shafigh, Lajevardi& Islami, in our researches, reached the point that one of the apparent shortages of our society is the lack of female Islamic school. For this reason, we decided to organize the “Refah” Islamic girl school. To purchase the estate for this school which was located the Islamic parliament (Baharestan square”& it belonged to” Bank-e-mail, we wore made to pay it’s price in three, 300000, too mans installments.

To provide the first payment, we had many problems, since our friends had been in prison for a few years & wore not in a good financial state, therefore, we only could prepare 100000 toomans fit.

To prepare the remaining 200000 too mans, we took the subject to Mr. Hashemi-e-Rafsanjani, so as, he could find one way out for it. He, also contacted Haj Hossein-e-Akhavan-e-Farshchi,& convinced him to pay us the rest 200000 toomans as Imam’s share of poor-rate. When the building deal was over, we inaugurated the school with the first class of primed to be “velayati”& form “velayat” they only paid attention to the prophet’s “Ahle-beyt” )peace be upon all o them) affection& loving& did not consider it’s governing aspect, had gone to his majesty Imam, & hope said that “these gentlemen have misused the Imam’s share (peace be upon him).

As an accident, at the same days, one of the friends (i.e). Haj Mohammad Alamdar had pilgrim the sacred Najaf& moan while had gone to his majesty Imam, had written an affectionate letter to Mr. Hashemi-e-Rafsanjani& had delivered it to Mr, Alamdari, to take it to Tehran&submit it to Mr Hashemi.

Mr. Alamdar, after his arrival to Tehran, delivered the letter tome to hand it over to Mr. Hashemi. I informed him by telephone & he come to my office on the same day. He read the letter & then gave it to me to read it. The content of the letter was that his majesty Imam had complained &had mentioned that why you before doing some thing, do not inform me, till other people come here & by their gossiping & telling lies, they exhibit the subjects upside down?

After understanding the meaning of the letter, we took actions& wrote an elaborate report about the purchasing the school & finding the school for his majesty Imam, sent it to sacred Najaf through Mr. Hashemi-e-Rafsanjani.

Finally, in spite of having various stumbling blocks, the “refah” school, started with a class of twenty students,& the gradually it was upgraded to high school level.

The determination of the policy& political behavior of “Refah” cultural foundation was the duty of statute- delegation of 12 people that the members of this team included martyr Beheshti, Dr. Mahammad Javad-e-Bahonare, Mohammad ali-e-Ragaee, Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hag Hossein Akhovan Farshchi, Abbass Aseem, Haj agha Alae Mirmohammad sadeghi, Habibollah-e-shafigh, Abolfazle Tavakkoli Bina, Mohammad Javad Rafigh dust& Mehdi Ghayurzadeh.

Refah cultural institute continued it’s activity until the regime security organ detected it’s nature & role& arrested some of the women& even some of the students& stopped the guidance school& the high school, bout the primary school of “Refah” continued it’s work.


Source: the memories of Abolfazle Tavakkoli Bina Islamic Revolution document center. 2005.