{"id":207,"date":"2013-04-18T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2016-08-02T08:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T08:09:03","slug":"visit-at-neauphle-le-chateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVisit at Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau\u201d Accounts of Imam Khomeini\u2019s Presence in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau as expressed by a revolutionary combatant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina<\/p>\n

\u201cAbolfazl Tavakoli Bina\u201d, a revolutionary combatant against the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran, has compiled his socio-political memoirs of victory of Islamic Revolution in Iran centralized the description of memories pertaining to the residence of Imam Khomeini in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau, France, in a book entitled \u201cVisit at Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book begins with some memories from difficult childhood, adolescence, and youth of Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina and continues with his entry to Imam Khomeini\u2019s movement and his accompaniment with Islamic Coalition Party. Tavakoli Bina has even added to attraction of the book \u201cVisit in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau\u201d by expressing the unsaid facts of what happened during the fighting path beside Imam Khomeini.<\/p>\n

In a part of Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina\u2019s memoirs, the difficult conditions of \u201cSAVAK (Organization of Intelligence and National Security)\u201d and methods of forcing confessions out of political prisoners have been described as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy back swelled and burst my due to the strike of cables. It was about 3 a.m. when I fainted. Only my ears could hear them ordering not to let me sleep, not to give me food, so that he would confess. By the time of in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau as expressed by a revolutionary combatant Morning Prayer, I went out to do wudu. My entire back had swelled such that I was unable to move my hand or my waist. I did wudu with difficulty and said Morning Prayer. At 7 a.m. they took me to the interrogation room, and I repeated the same words as the previous night.<\/p>\n

They would not let us rest more than an hour or two in a day. The pressure of torture and psychological pressure had completely taken comfort away from us.<\/p>\n

Having suffered prison and severe tortures, Tavakoli Bina goes to France with Mahdi Iraqi, the late Iranian revolutionary combatant. At that time, Imam Khomeini was living in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau village in France, who ordered that his housekeeping would be performed by Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina and Mahdi Iraqi after realizing that these to combatants reside in France.<\/p>\n

The volume of visiting demands from Iranian students abroad, journalists, and even the French with Imam Khomeini was high and this course of history has been very effective in expediting the process of Islamic Revolution and people\u2019s increasing awareness of the event. Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina mentions in a part of his memoirs, \u201cFive persons from churches in south of France had been sent as representatives to welcome Imam Khomeini who came and met him. Before Imam met them, he ordered us to get some presents and flowers for them. He was so gifted. When they entered, a woman who was the head of that team began her words like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cOh Imam, you who have come to establish the rule of God on earth…\u201d This was what the Christian woman said. When she was expressing such words, everybody cried emotional tears. The meeting was so influential.<\/p>\n

The finishing part of the book \u201cVisit at Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau\u201d is devoted to Imam\u2019s return from France to Iran and formation of Welcome Committee in Iran in 1 February 1979. He then talks about expediting the recording and distribution of Imam Khomeini\u2019s speeches and messages from France to Tehran: \u201cThe process was such that Imam\u2019s speeches were sent from his office in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau via telephone which I recorded. The messages were recorded in a similar way. While transcribing the tapes, we wound sometimes wind the tape back and forward for more than fifty times to understand some ambiguous words.<\/p>\n

Then we multiplied them and sent the ones which were ready to different regions in Tehran. They, too, were responsible to distribute them, and it was such that whoever came to his work would see a version of Imam\u2019s speeches on his desk. I heard from one of the brethren who had studied in the U.S. that Holmes and Sullivan, America\u2019s ambassador in Iran said in a televised debate that you did not perform your duties well. They told they did a good job, but what was unknown to them is that Ayatollah Khomeini wrote on a small piece of paper and suddenly the entire country moved. They could not work this out…\u201d<\/p>\n

The book \u201cVisit at Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau\u201d is published by attempts of Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini\u2019s works.<\/p>\n

Download PDF: \u201cVisit at Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau<\/a><\/p>\n

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Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina \u201cAbolfazl Tavakoli Bina\u201d, a revolutionary combatant against the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran, has compiled his socio-political memoirs of victory of Islamic Revolution in Iran centralized the description of memories pertaining to the residence of Imam Khomeini in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau, France, in a book entitled \u201cVisit at Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[2156,2152,166,2154],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein-de","tag-a-revolutionary-combatant","tag-abolfazl-tavakoli-bina","tag-imam-khomeini","tag-neauphle-le-chateau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spektrum.irankultur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}