Avini and Martyrdom

Avini and Martyrdom

April 8, 1993 (Farvardin 20, 1372) is the day of Haj Sayed Morteza Avini's martyrdom. He was a skillful author, the narrator of Ravayat-e Fath (a TV program), the chief editor of Sura Magazine (an artistic and literary magazine) and the head of TV department of the artistic center. Having traveled to one of the war zones of Iran for making a new series of Ravayat-e Fath, with a group of cameramen, he became martyr due to the mines, existed in the region. He was not alone; his colleague Mohammed Saeed Yazdanparast was another martyr.

Two days before leaving for the area of Fakkeh, as an answer to the question: Where are you leaving for in this way?

"You may not know where I am going; I am leaving for Fakkeh, where our combatants witnessed how the angels were delivering the martyrs' souls."

After his martyrdom, our Supreme leader, "Hazrat-e Ayatollah Khamenei" commemorated his memory as "the lord of martyr authors."

    The martyrdom anniversary of an Islamic revolution's artist who spent his life in the battlefields and who was the narrator of the Islamic combatants" efforts, was called" the day of the Islamic revolution's Art" This was following the Supreme leader' decree and was suggested by the poets and poetesses, authors and the artists of the Artistic Center of the Organization of the Islamic Propagation.