Ashraf Dehghani

Ashraf Dehghani (born 1948) is a well-known Iranian female revolutionary and member of the Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas.

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 * A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971


 * The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971


 * For a while longer you may be able to carry on with your plundering and murderous crimes, but you will not escape your ultimate fate. We shall exhaust and then destroy you in a difficult and prolonged battle. When one of us falls, there are tens of others who will rise. Our death is no ordinary death and our life no ordinary life.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971


 * Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971
 * This quote was about the regime of the Shah, who was forced to flee Iran in 1979