Friday, April 09, 1993

The martyrdom of Morteza Avini

Navideshahed- Seyed Morteza Avini was born in 1947 in Rey, South of Tehran. He studied Elementary and Secondary Educations in Zanjan, Kerman, and Tehran and achieved master’s degree in architecture from University of Tehran.

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Seyed Morteza Avini was born in 1947 in Rey, South of Tehran. He studied Elementary and Secondary Educations in Zanjan, Kerman, and Tehran and achieved master’s degree in architecture from University of Tehran.
After victory of the Islamic Revolution, he turned to film and joining the television team of Construction Jihad, he began making documentary films. His initial film was about a flood affecting Khuzestan in 1979. His succeeding works were “Six days in Turkmensahra”? about anti-Revolution groups’ proceedings in Gonbad, and “Khan Gazide-ha”? (the bitten by the Khan) about khans of Firouz Abad, Fars province.
Avini’s most known work was the series of “Revayate Fath”? (the Chronicles of Victory) presented on TV since 1985. Since it depicted the true face of Iran-Iraq warfronts, the Chronicles of Victory was widely welcomed, wherein he himself wrote the script and narrated the scenes.
Launch of “Adabiat-e Dastani”? (fiction literature) monthly and establishment of the center for “Religious Studies of Art”? were some of his other artistic activities.
He resumed making the series of the Chronicles of Victory in 1992, and to do so, departed for the former war zones. He had been informed of various channels in the Fakkeh region hosting many Iranian Martyrs’ bodies, so he and his colleagues departed for there on April 8, 1993. He stepped on an undisposed landmine, losing his foot, but he died a martyr in his way to hospital owing to sever bleeding. Engineer Saeid Yazdan Parast also martyred in this event. He altogether made 25 series of documentary films presented on TV, and his writings have been published in 12 volumes by now.

Seyed Morteza Avini was born in 1947 in Rey, South of Tehran. He studied Elementary and Secondary Educations in Zanjan, Kerman, and Tehran and achieved master’s degree in architecture from University of Tehran. After victory of the Islamic Revolution, he turned to film and joining the television team of Construction Jihad, he began making documentary films. His initial film was about a flood affecting Khuzestan in 1979. His succeeding works were “Six days in Turkmensahra”? about anti-Revolution groups’ proceedings in Gonbad, and “Khan Gazide-ha”? (the bitten by the Khan) about khans of Firouz Abad, Fars province. Avini’s most known work was the series of “Revayate Fath”? (the Chronicles of Victory) presented on TV since 1985. Since it depicted the true face of Iran-Iraq warfronts, the Chronicles of Victory was widely welcomed, wherein he himself wrote the script and narrated the scenes. Launch of “Adabiat-e Dastani”? (fiction literature) monthly and establishment of the center for “Religious Studies of Art”? were some of his other artistic activities. He resumed making the series of the Chronicles of Victory in 1992, and to do so, departed for the former war zones. He had been informed of various channels in the Fakkeh region hosting many Iranian Martyrs’ bodies, so he and his colleagues departed for there on April 8, 1993. He stepped on an undisposed landmine, losing his foot, but he died a martyr in his way to hospital owing to sever bleeding. Engineer Saeid Yazdan Parast also martyred in this event. He altogether made 25 series of documentary films presented on TV, and his writings have been published in 12 volumes by now.