ian female communist revolution
aries, and is a member of the Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
.
In 1971, Ashraf Dehghani (then a member of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
cadre) was arrested, imprisoned, and torture
d for her political beliefs under the dictatorial
rule of the Shah of Iran
, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. She escaped two years later. Her memoirs, entitled Torture and Resistance in Iran, document the events prior to and during her imprisonment.
The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
For a while longer you may be able to carry on with your plundering and murderous crimes, but you will not escape your ultimate fate. We shall exhaust and then destroy you in a difficult and prolonged battle. When one of us falls, there are tens of others who will rise. Our death is no ordinary death and our life no ordinary life.
Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.