The king (Shah) had escaped and the people were looting the palaces. Kazem was the first person who touched the golden handle of the palace’s large gate. He entered the palace and saw the silk curtains, incrusted chairs and tables, silk carpets and so on. But the palace was a gloomy place for him despite all of its beauty. For him, the clay houses in his village, its natural landscapes, and roaming the paternal farm were more pleasant. Soon the people’s voice chanting Allah-o-Akbar (Allah is Greater) was heard from outside the palace. Kazem was con-cerned that the palace and its belongings would be damaged because he thought that all of them were public prop-erty and should be protected. He tried to calm the people down and did not allow them to damage the palace as long as he was there.

Mohsen Motlagh (1969-Tehran) Mohsen Motlagh, went to battlefront when he was a teenager and stayed there under the influence of that atmos-phere until the end of the war. Motlagh began writing about the war with the book Viva Komeil. After the war, he studied industrial design at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran, and gained some experience in music too and has been playing reed for years.