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Tehran’s Ebrat Museum: A Reconstruction of Pre-Revolution Cruelties

The Ebrat Museum in central Tehran tries to make its visitors familiar with the pains and sufferings of Iranian political prisoners before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The Tehran-based Anti-Sabotage Joint Committee was operated by the notorious intelligence agency SAVAK under the Shah of Iran and worked against political opponents.

SAVAK was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service of the Pahlavi monarchy. It was established by Iran’s Mohammad Reza Shah with the help of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Mossad.

The joint committee’s building has now turned into a museum called Ebrat Museum (Edification Museum) of Tehran, putting abuses under the Shah on display.

The leading people, who played a key role in the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, were imprisoned in this place. The museum displays their cells and the tortures they suffered.

Here are the photos of the museum retrieved from the Tasnim News Agency:

Cell of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution
Cell of Martyr Seyyed Abdolkarim Hashemi Nejad
Martyr Ayatollah Seyyed Abdolhossein Dastgheib
Martyr Mohammad Javad Bahonar
Martyr Mohammad Ali Rajaei
Martyr Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad-Reza Saeedi Khorasani
Martyr Assadollah Lajevardi
SAVAK cells in the museum
Dr Ali Shariati
Martyr Seyyed Ali Akbar Abu Torabi
Ayatollah Ali Qoddousi
Martyr Mohammad Mahdi Haj Ibrahim Eraqi
SAVAK cells in the museum
Fatemeh Askarieh

Fatemeh Askarieh is an Iranian journalist working on a range of fields including culture, art, lifestyle, cultural heritage, and tourism. She has been working with the Iran Front Page (IFP) Media Group for 10 years, and is currently the head of the Art and Lifestyle Department.

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