Word: abolghasemi
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...known as the mother of two shahids, (martyrs) and is sometimes called "commander" by her "sisters." In a neighborhood close to the bazaar district in southern Tehran, Aghdas Moradi, better known as "the mother of Shahid Mohammad Mehdi Abolghasemi," is scurrying around with her black chador flailing around her, giving orders to the men on the other end of her walkie-talkie...
...Abolghasemi is the leader of 300 basij women, a network of volunteers allied with the Revolutionary Guard and political conservatives. It was the grassroots efforts of groups like hers that helped conservatives take control of the legislature from reformists in 2004, and swept President Ahmadinejad to victory in the 2005 presidential election...
...Pointing to a large poster dotted with the portraits of an Islamic Alliance martyrs' genealogy of sorts - men killed in their struggles against the Shah's regime, and in the first post-revolutionary years or the Iran-Iraq war - Abolghasemi says, "That one over there, you see him, fourth row, to the right, that's my son," adding, "He was 17 and never asked his parents for permission to go to the war front. He saw it as his Islamic duty...
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