The book “A Neighborhood and a Tailor Uncle” has been published

According to IRNA’s cultural correspondent, the book “A Neighborhood and a Tailor Uncle” has been published by Esmat Sepehri, and the martyr’s daughter wrote in the introduction: For years, I had been worried about recording the memories of my father’s life. Days and nights, months and years passed one after another, and I continued to think about this issue. I felt the weight of words, memories, and the realities of my father’s life on my shoulders, and for years my mental concern was to be able to write about his biography, his behavior, and his temperament, the reason why people, neighborhood residents, friends, acquaintances, family, and relatives liked him, and the injustice my father suffered during his martyrdom, and to introduce him as a role model to society. But every time I made up my mind and tried to write, the pen would not help. (Page 5)

He wrote about the difficulties of writing his father’s biography: I had some difficulties in carrying out this serious mission. Sometimes, during all the hours I talked to people, family, and friends about my father, a weight would fall on me, my heart would ache, and I would suffer from severe headaches. Sometimes I would not be able to write; if I stopped writing due to my mental and physical conditions and postponed it to another time. Sometimes, hearing some facts about my father’s life that I was not aware of; I was so amazed that I would spend hours in my shell thinking about it. (Page 6)

The author, referring to the moral qualities of his father, wrote: Sometimes women would also visit the shop to sew coats and skirts, and Abolghasem was forced to go to Ayatollah Pasandideh, Imam Khomeini’s brother, to continue his work and obtain religious instructions in this regard. Ayatollah Pasandideh also did not consider tailoring for women permissible because of the measurement of women’s bodies. Abolghasem decided to sew suits and trousers only for men. Therefore, he took steps to obtain a license to sew men’s suits. (Page 22)

Martyr Sepehri’s daughter also wrote: During the imposed war and the holy defense and the days when Saddam attacked Iran with the help of Western and European countries, the tailor uncle was restless and restless, constantly thinking to himself what service he could do to support the warriors. Finally, he decided to take his sewing machine to the front and sew clothes for the warriors. He shared his decision with his family, gained their approval, and did all the work to go to the front. He loaded the sewing machine and the necessary equipment onto a truck, went to Ahvaz, and settled next to the warriors’ camp. He sewed every day and provided good services. He stayed and worked at the front for three months in a row. Abolqasem considered the warriors to be divine beings who sacrificed their own peace and comfort to protect the country. Therefore, he believed that the atmosphere of the front and the spirituality of the warriors had transformed that place into a “house of healing.” His feet hurt, so he made an intention and rubbed the dirt from the warriors’ soles on his feet every day. When he returned home after three months, he no longer complained of foot pain. (Page 46)

Referring to the love and affection of the people of Eskandari neighborhood of Tehran for this martyr of assassination, he wrote: It was as if the conditions were not prepared for the two hypocrites who had ordered the assassination of Uncle Khayat. They drove around on their motorbikes from one street to the other several times until the shop was deserted and both could get to their evil work. Finally, that moment arrived. For Uncle Khayat, the moment of meeting with the Almighty God had been prepared, and for the heartless hypocrites, the moment of assassination had been prepared. The shop was deserted, Uncle Khayat was sewing clothes with a sewing thimble and needle still in his hands, happy that a customer’s clothes would be ready to be delivered, but this moment was the promised moment when he responded to the Almighty God while serving the people. The shop became even quieter, as only three people were present in the shop. Then one of the hypocrites entered the shop, called Uncle Khayat and asked, “Who is Mr. Sepehri?” Uncle Khayat replied, “Please come!”… According to the hypocrites themselves and according to the documents, a total of 13 shots were fired that day. Some people said that the hypocrite had shouted before the barrage, “In the name of God and in the name of the merciful people!” And that is how the arrows finally hit the heart and brain of Uncle Khayat and he was martyred with a fasting tongue. (Page 74)

In the interrogation sessions led by Martyr Lajavardi, the hypocrite confessed that apart from my father, he had killed five other businessmen from the West Tehran neighborhood, including Martyr Behnood, a grocery seller, a lemonade seller, and a samovar maker. Mr. Lajavardi asked my mother to have a meeting with the hypocrite in question along with my younger brother Hassan. During this meeting, my mother asked the hypocrite, “Did you know my wife that you attempted to assassinate? Did you know that she was the father of several young children? Did she commit any crime or wrongdoing that would justify her killing?” The hypocrite said, “No! I did not know her or have seen her at all. I only assassinated him on the orders of Rajavi, who considered people like your wife to be the butt of the plot and insisted that they should be eliminated. “Finally, the hypocrite in question was hanged the following year in the holy month of Ramadan, on the night of my father’s martyrdom; with the hope that the main perpetrators of this process would one day be punished for their actions, so that the survivors could be consoled. (Page 84)

This martyr’s son, who had participated in the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, wrote about his speech at the specialized session on women and human rights: It was very heavy and bitter for me that the special rapporteur replied indifferently and calmly, “This issue does not concern us. Go and raise your issue within your country and tell your government. Because this issue concerns your government.” A heavy sadness took over my being. My heart sank and tears flowed from my eyes, and I thought to myself, “Aren’t you a reporter? Don’t you claim to have human rights? How is it that you consider yourself a human rights activist and defend the murderers and criminals of a country and easily turn a blind eye to the crimes of the human rights violators of the MKO? I stood up and left the meeting, saying to myself, “I am sorry for you; for you, the murderer has changed places with the victim!” (Page 90)

The book “A Neighborhood and a Tailor Uncle; A Look at the Biography of Martyr Abolghasem Sepehri” has been published by Sarir Publications in cooperation with the Organization for Publishing Works and Values ​​of Women’s Participation in Sacred Defense in 114 pages.