Reza Hazeli
My father, who had just received his lieutenant-colonel’s rank from the commander, lieutenant-general Badrei, his friend who spoke the same language, was arrested immediately after the Revolution on the evening of February 11, 1979. His commander, General Badrei, was assassinated by U.S. advisers in his office. My father, who was a supporter of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and a like-minded supporter of Dr. Bakhtiar, was imprisoned and tortured many times and even sentenced to death.
However, the sentence was overturned due to the traditional influence of my maternal family. Yet, he had to endure arrest and torture many times in 1989, which brought me too much suffering during my childhood and adolescence. Forty years after the Revolution, my father died on an unknown cause exactly on the 22nd of Bahman, of which we were informed by anonymous people exactly on the night of Nowruz, which was also my birthday.
