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Drops of Blood for Freedom
The Memoirs of Seyyed Assadollah Rassa, a Freedom Fighter Journalist of Pahlavi Period, Including His Unpublished Articles, Records, Writings, and Poems
Author: Dr. Mozzaffar Namdar
Date of Publication: First Edition 2012
Print run: 1500 Copies
Number of Pages: 479 pages
Price: 10000 Tuman
From the text of the book:
“... in the company of the great leader of freedom fighters, late Ayatollah Seyyed Hassan Modarres , Seyyed Assadollah Rassa began his fights against the spirit of loving the foreigners from Vossouqoddowleh’s cabinet known as “Treaty cabinet”. He was detained and jailed with some famous figures of this period including Mirzadeh Eshghi, Zia’olvaezin, Farrokhi Yazdi, Kamarei, MalekAlShora Bahar because of struggle against imperialism and despotism.
Following Reza Khan and Seyyed Zia’addin Tabatabai’s coup known as the Black coup, Rassa thought of publishing a daily; in 1921 when he was no more than 20 years, he gets the permit to publish Qanun daily…”