Chapter 13 : Raha
من أجل ذلك كتبنا على بني إسرائيل أنه من قتل نفسا بغير نفس أو فساد في الأرض فكأنما قتل الناس جميعا ومن أحياها فكأنما أحيا الناس جميعا ولقد جاء تهم رسلنا بالبينات ثم إن كثيرا منهم بعد ذلك في الأرض لمسرفون
[5:32] On that account; We ordained for the Children of Israel that anyone who murders one who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers came to them with clear proofs and revelations, then most of them, after all this, are sure transgressors in the earth.
Chapter 13
RAHA
‘Why didn’t you say anything?’ Kaveh tried to make Roy respond.
‘It was my own fault, how to complain?’ said Roy, his voice dying, ‘a moment before it, I wished death! When it came to me, I found out I feared it! Never in my life, in no air adventure had I feared death … Tonight …’ he couldn’t continue for a sever throe in his side.
Taha came out; he understood very well that only a miracle could save Roy if he remained at home. ‘I will not let israelis defeat me’ he thought. Then turned to Raha and unwillingly but seriously said, ‘we’ll go to hospital anyways!’
‘Taha!’ called Raha, ‘aren’t I telling you it is impossible? They will sure put spies near the military hospital; if we don’t discover them on time they will kill him in less than five hours!’
‘See! He will die in five minutes, ok? Now choose if it is better or to give him the chance to live a few hours more before he gets caught?’ said Taha firmly.
With his home dress, Taha joined the men taking Roy to the car again; Raha was nervous but arguing only wasted more time.
In the back of the car, she looked at Taha that was sitting beside her.
‘Raha please!’ he begged.
She started the car and began driving as fast as if the car was about to fly. Kaveh said impatiently, ‘he seems asleep’
‘Get up man!’ shouted Taha at Roy. He lifelessly opened his eyes and closed again. Taha shouted again, ‘get up I tell you’
He didn’t seem to understand much of what was happening around now.
The seconds while they were in the way seemed too long for them all. Kaveh tried to make Roy respond somehow, but his attempt was of no use.
To everyone it could be a message when military men in uniforms ran to hospital, especially if you look forward!
Taha ran inside while Raha went to call to the president of hospital to warn him who was taken there, she asked the issue to remain secret and only her husband and a few nurses should be allowed to know exactly who the injured one was.
The night was dark and frightening, they all were completely wet, it was still raining, but Kaveh was also wet with blood. He was almost sick but Raha couldn’t pull him back from the door of the surgery room
Iran
Mar. 27th (Farvardin 7th), 2:55 am
The USA, Washington DC
Mar 26th, 6:25 pm (same time)
10 minutes were passed from the explosion,
Beside the injury of Roy Harding in Iran, the 2 scientific officers working on the bomb got killed and parts of the base damaged.
The air was dark and everything was calm and peaceful. Things went on as usual as every night. The American base was spending its ending hours of night.
‘I detect some unknown objects at the horizon, they are coming towards us, they are very near!’ an officer declared.
‘Which horizon?’
‘The eastern, side of Iran’
‘Speed?’
‘Like 1500 mil/h, sir, they are too many!’
Tens of Iranian fighters suddenly appeared in the sky over 3 or 4 military bases of the US in countries which bordered Iran. They’d flight through valleys and pathways that were impossible to be detected by radars until they were very near and were not expected as a result.
Regarding to not being informed about the bombing in Iran by israel and estimating Iran a passive state as it usually is, the attack was completely a surprise.
The United States didn’t really expect any such attack,
The base was alerted in one moment but even one moment was too late, the sky lit up over them and fire began raining, from the heaven to earth and the earth to heaven!
Attack to bases was the first thing that was informed to the American president in the beginning minutes; he angrily appeared on TV and condemned the invasion to the US bases and promised of fast response.
It was about 11:25 in Britain and Rose was in bed. The baby began crying and waked her up, she tried to feed her and make her stop crying, she was very tired but couldn’t sleep anymore, she was feeling as if a disaster had happened.
The little girl fell asleep, but Rose couldn’t sleep. Got up and opened the window, the cold fresh air of early spring filled her room, but she didn’t enjoy it anymore.
She remembered such a time last year, Roy and her knelt to pray to ask God for a child, it was years she didn’t want to give birth to a child after she lost her first child. Roy never complained this, but she always thought it was very selfish, then changed her idea last year, and now they had it.
Rose looked at the clock, it was 11:45. Still she felt nervous. Turned on the TV to see if they had anything to amuse her.
Suddenly she saw the highlighted subtitle: BREAKING NEWS: The Chain Of Violation Completes By The Unexpected Raid At The American Bases.
Rose rubbed her eyes and read the text again, the news was saying the news agency was looking for videos from the place of incident and analyzed the probable purposes of Iran.
Rose got very worried what this inopportune attack could mean, and what would happen if a war began?
The American military were getting ready to return the attack, but the Generals believed they must study more. What was the message of this attack and what the fate of their captive would be then?
But Iranians thought after the terrorist attack they had no more time to wait or they would be hit. The Iranian president came to the TV after 20 minutes and expressed what he called the wrath of Iranian nation from the “act of terror” and “hundredth proof” of hostility with the nation by the US and Zionist regime.
Tehran hadn’t received any report about the American officer who must had been in way there, although they guessed the officers didn’t get in touch to keep the secret. In fact Raha hadn’t found a chance to report the incident yet, she was helping Taha.
She sent Omid to the base immediately after they entered the hospital, and asked for urgent help.
Iran, Esfahan, hospital
Mar. 27th, 3:20 am
‘Hasn’t it been taken too long?’ Kaveh asked by the door of surgery room.
‘No it hasn’t’ replied Raha, ‘you would better rest a little’
‘How can I rest? I don’t even know if he is alive!’
‘He is. They had nothing more to stay inside for if he was dead’
Raha continued, ‘since day one you met him I noticed he was special to you, your great care and concern even softened him, something that I hardly expected’
‘Well, you don’t daily see enemies refuse bombing each other and land in the hostile soil voluntarily.’ Kaveh answered, ‘you’re right, he was very respectful to me even before I met him, like that son who returned to the father after he had separated and went away forever. (Bible, new testaments)’
‘I see, I’m happy you are so understanding about him, but you should calm down for now and rest, also you need to change your dress, you can’t read your morning prayer with that much blood on your uniform’
Raha’s certain tone ensured Kaveh. At this time Taha came out. Anxiety had really tired him. Kaveh couldn’t read anything in his face. Raha asked, ‘how’s he?’
‘He’s been a strong man though he’s lost a lot of blood, if he gets conscious he will live for sure … God willing’ he said and called the nurses out.
Esfahan, Military base
Mar. 27th, 3:20 am
‘Don’t worry, we’ll come to help right now, we are working hard to discover the spies, they must be a completely separated network from the one we discovered recently’ Colonel Rastgari told Omid, ‘we’ll send our guards in the uniform of nurses and doctors, but you will not go back to hospital because you have entered the hospital in military uniform once.’
In accompany with the hospital, many guards dressed in medical uniforms attended in the place. Their mission was to track and report any suspecting movement.
Raha was walking to and fro behind the door of surgery room. Kaveh went to change his dress. When he took off his uniform, held it on his hands and looked deeply at the blood covering it, thinking that his mate could die tonight harrowed him. Felt his head went round. Difficultly washed up and went back to the surgery part. Raha told him to go rest, he said he wanted to stay guarding, Raha said, ‘the hospital is full of guards, you’re not required tonight, you should rest to get ready for a difficult tomorrow!’
Even when Raha spoke softly it was a waste of time to argue with her, she wanted Kaveh to rest, and it meant he had to rest!
There was a small mosque for praying, Kaveh went there, but couldn’t rest, a lot of annoying thoughts had filled his mind. Got up and looked for the direction to pray.
As soon as he stood praying he felt calmer. Loneliness was now the best thing he had. Everywhere was dark and peaceful. He suddenly noticed how long he had had every kind of stress and how very he required relieving, but recalling Roy would die destroyed all of his calmness, a valuable life was dying by the hand of its own employers!
A tear dropped down from his eye and he told himself, ‘I am sorry, I was responsible for your life! If you didn’t know the danger of Zionism, I did!’
The continuous sing of a cricket adorned the purity of night. The cool clean breeze of early spring found its way in. Kaveh decided he should do something; he devoted the next day to fast for the sake of God!
After this decision, he felt a lot calmer.
Raha was in touch with the other guards in the hospital; she hadn’t even found time to sit down a little. Taha was also in way in the surgery room and back all the time.
‘How is it going?’ Raha asked Taha. Taha stopped and shook his head, indeed he didn’t know what to say; sat down beside her on the bench, felt how tired she was, how very he had counted down the days for her to come back to him, but it was not that meeting he wished. Hesitated for a while and then said, ‘someone must stay with the man during the night, will you do it yourself or you will trust a nurse?’
‘I will stay myself, our commanders also prefer one of their forces to attend with him’ she replied.
Taha led her in and while they couldn’t let in many nurses, Taha himself gave her a green cover.
‘Take off your boots and wear these please’ said Taha, ‘remember there are other patients too’
Raha looked at Taha longer than usual, and said ‘how very I’ve missed you within these few days!!’
Then she had a few seconds to think where she could hide her military boots not to be seen. She entered the Room where Roy’s bed was. He was unconscious.
‘Dear! The surgery room is not a good place to carry out an Intelligence operation!’ Taha stressed when he was going to leave.
‘I understand, thank you’ she answered smiling.
She sat on a chair and looked at the poor father, to her, the most important thing over the global political situations and national security and professional responsibilities, now was that if he ever could see his child. The electrocardiogram sang permanently, and gave a kind of relief to Raha as the sound of crickets relieved Kaveh a little further.
Kaveh was still standing praying.
At the same time the intelligence had noticed a suspecting flashing of light being seen around the hospital.
Many nurses were in the surgery ward, but they weren’t aware about the new guest of the hospital.
A policewoman dressed as a nurse called Mohyee looked in all of the rooms which had a window towards the flashing light.
All patients and their participators were asleep. There was a 14 year old boy playing a game with his cell phone.
‘You’re too young as a participator’ said Mohyee.
‘The age doesn’t matter nurse, the abilities do’ the boy replied.
‘Hmm good!’ she said, ‘is that your cell phone?’
‘Yes’
‘Does it have a camera?’
‘Yes’
‘Dear, you have to hand it over to the personnel of the hospital as long as you’re in’
His face changed, after a few seconds he said, ‘why? I need it! My mother is going to call me’
‘no problem, she will call the hospital, tonight the camera is not allowed here, then please give it to me, ok?’ she said.
The boy wasn’t able to decide what to do, told her, ‘a moment please’ then dialed a number and said, ‘hello, listen, I have to give the cell phone to a nurse… it is not my fault, they say it is the law! …’ then he lowered his voice not to let her hear and went on, ‘hey, what should I do then? Oh ok’
After she took the mobile and went away, she reported a brief to her commander, she said all were asleep but a child, but her commander informed her that a regular flashing stopped at the moment.
At once Mohyee looked at the receiver closely, the camera had a flash light, she rushed to meet the commander
‘Then the source of flashing’s been the same mobile I have in my hand now!’ Mohyee told the Commander, ‘is it possible that the boy’s been just playing?’ she continued.
‘No I don’t think’ said the commander, ‘they were signals like telegraph alphabet. It hardly can be an accident, we must study the signals, bring the boy here please’
Mohyee went back to the room where the boy was as fast as possible, but she didn’t find him there anymore…
On the other side the commander had recently ordered Raha to leave the hospital for a rest, she was asked to leave the hospital for 24 hours. The order removed her nightly peace! She really wanted to stay, it wasn’t a duty anymore, as long as Taha was home she had to stay at her post, now that Taha was here with her, she had to go home!
Besides, she didn’t want to leave the American Major in that situation and go home, she couldn’t relieve before she had a certain news about his health.
The commander asked her if she wanted a Sepah car to take her home, but she said she would call a taxi. She knew the attendance of the armed forces in the hospital must not appear unusual. With a heavy heart, she understood she had to leave.
When she stepped out she found it very difficult to go away, looked around, found a lonely light of a pharmacy on in the dark night.
Slowly walked towards it and sat on a bench by its door, put her head on her hand and many annoying thoughts came to her mind again.
Put her head on the wall and thought she was too rough to Roy in the interrogation. She saw an ambulance stopped before the hospital and to her very surprise so many armed israeli soldiers jumped out and rushed to the hospital. She startled suddenly and recognized she had fallen asleep!
Looked at her watch, it was about half an hour passed 4 am. The call of Azan had filled the environment. She felt weak for some moments, the short dream had badly affected her, but then tried to get up and search for the mosque from where the Azan was heard. It was not difficult to find it with green lights a few hundred meters down the street.
She had left the place when an ambulance stopped by the door of the hospital and then a car after it. An anxious family took off from the car and run into the hospital after the badly injured one who was taken in.
When she got ablution and read the short Morning Prayer she felt much better. Stayed in and honestly prayed for the safety of Roy, Taha, and her country.
Walking out she thought it was now easier for her to go home and be away from the hospital for a few hours.
Here, a voice attracted her attention; ‘I don’t believe it! Commander!
It was Omid standing out of the mosque; Kaveh was next to him, ‘hey! You must have been resting in the military base,’ said Raha, then turned to Kaveh and said, ‘and you must be resting in hospital!’
‘I couldn’t rest at all,’ said Kaveh with a somehow trembling voice, he continued, ‘when I heard Azan I came here to pray and I saw I wasn’t the only one that couldn’t rest. So what’s new about Roy? Conscious?’
‘Not yet as long as I was in,’ said Raha, then joked, ‘what are you going to do then? Stay here till your boycott time is over?’
Kaveh didn’t laugh with this joke, just looked down, Raha went ahead, ‘I mean if you want to stay here then you need to have something to eat.’
‘Well, I’m not hungry; I can’t eat with this anxiety.’ Answered Kaveh.
‘You have to, ok you two stay here, I’ll buy you something to eat’ said Raha and left them immediately.
Kaveh stopped her at once and said, ‘no please, see, I’m fasting! I devoted fast for the surviving of the American pilot!’
Raha turned back with a lot of surprise, but before her, it was Omid that remarked amazed, ‘but you didn’t eat last night also! It was when you and that one received the message from his wife, and then the alarm from the Intelligence’
‘Thank you for concerning about me, but as I said I’ve devoted!’ said Kaveh.
The reaction of Raha was just to say ‘oh!’ and returning towards the men.
‘Well then go buy something for you to eat’ said Kaveh.
‘I hadn’t thought we could fast,’ said Raha, ‘if you fast, then why not us?’
Some minutes pass and they were still in the yard of the mosque
‘You know I was thinking about the first day of attack.’ Said Kaveh.
‘Yeah when he landed’ said Raha, ‘but I was the first one who met him!’
Omid cut off his superior’s words, ‘no the first one was me!! In that dogfight I felt it was the first real battle I ever had in my life. When you see you on the edge of death you will use all of the arts you’ve ever learnt to survive. He was a great pilot!’
‘Was?’ Kaveh reacted immediately. Turned to Omid and said, ‘he is a great pilot!’
Omid remained silent. But Kaveh went on with a sigh, ‘he was under our protection, we had tied him down, and we were responsible to defend him as a result! …’
Kaveh was speaking when Omid said with surprise, ‘hey! See who’s coming!’
His superiors turned to the direction of his pointing, it was Taha; that had his head down and walked slowly to the direction of the mosque to read his morning prayer individually.
Raha got up but didn’t call him. He hadn’t seen them until he got near and heard the whisper of Kaveh to Raha, ‘please ask him how the major is’
Now he picked up his head and saw them, ‘oh I thought you were ordered to go rest’ …
When Taha finished his prayer Raha was still watching him. Taha looked back and breathed with relief. Omid was also in the mosque, playing with a rosary, Kaveh was lounging by the door where he could watch the traffic to and from the hospital.
‘Anything new about our colleague?’ Raha broke the silence.
Taha shook his head. Again silence filled the space.
Raha didn’t want a silence like this, again she said, ‘why did you come out with the hospital uniform them?’
‘You remember, I didn’t have time to dress and don’t have suitable cloths with me’ said Taha.
Kaveh said expressly, ‘how did you see him last night? How much chance he has to live?’
‘His right side was full of broken glass; he had lost a lot of blood, he was in the condition of coma when he was taken to the surgery room… err, I don’t know what to say anymore’ then looked at his face and remarked, ‘well I’m a doctor, have to say everything clearly’
They were worried for a serious thing, but they were going to have even more things to worry about, as the response of Iran to the explosion was to invade the American military bases with full power, after an hour a second round of attacks begun.
‘Commander! Again they are coming! Distance from the base: 40 mil’
‘One stop them for love of heavens’ the commander said with a great excitement, ‘what a hell for the US did not predict it?’
This time again the base faced a heavy raid, now after the first invasion the ground defense of the base was badly damaged, the ground was covered with fire in a second. The second round of the offensive was more distractive even though this time it was expected.
The cadre of hospital informed the Intelligence forces that this woman accompanies an accident ulcerous, before anything happens, then it didn’t seem something to worry about,
When the sky of Esfahan was completely light, the sun was just rising in the Iran Iraq border. The sunrise is the best time for attacking from the east to the west.
Now the American forces in Iraq had prepared to counter any attack. The American fighters were now in the sky patrolling when they were imparted the third round of Iranian attack had begun.
What happened this time was a real air battle!
[5:32] On that account; We ordained for the Children of Israel that anyone who murders one who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers came to them with clear proofs and revelations, then most of them, after all this, are sure transgressors in the earth.
Chapter 13
RAHA
‘Why didn’t you say anything?’ Kaveh tried to make Roy respond.
‘It was my own fault, how to complain?’ said Roy, his voice dying, ‘a moment before it, I wished death! When it came to me, I found out I feared it! Never in my life, in no air adventure had I feared death … Tonight …’ he couldn’t continue for a sever throe in his side.
Taha came out; he understood very well that only a miracle could save Roy if he remained at home. ‘I will not let israelis defeat me’ he thought. Then turned to Raha and unwillingly but seriously said, ‘we’ll go to hospital anyways!’
‘Taha!’ called Raha, ‘aren’t I telling you it is impossible? They will sure put spies near the military hospital; if we don’t discover them on time they will kill him in less than five hours!’
‘See! He will die in five minutes, ok? Now choose if it is better or to give him the chance to live a few hours more before he gets caught?’ said Taha firmly.
With his home dress, Taha joined the men taking Roy to the car again; Raha was nervous but arguing only wasted more time.
In the back of the car, she looked at Taha that was sitting beside her.
‘Raha please!’ he begged.
She started the car and began driving as fast as if the car was about to fly. Kaveh said impatiently, ‘he seems asleep’
‘Get up man!’ shouted Taha at Roy. He lifelessly opened his eyes and closed again. Taha shouted again, ‘get up I tell you’
He didn’t seem to understand much of what was happening around now.
The seconds while they were in the way seemed too long for them all. Kaveh tried to make Roy respond somehow, but his attempt was of no use.
To everyone it could be a message when military men in uniforms ran to hospital, especially if you look forward!
Taha ran inside while Raha went to call to the president of hospital to warn him who was taken there, she asked the issue to remain secret and only her husband and a few nurses should be allowed to know exactly who the injured one was.
The night was dark and frightening, they all were completely wet, it was still raining, but Kaveh was also wet with blood. He was almost sick but Raha couldn’t pull him back from the door of the surgery room
Iran
Mar. 27th (Farvardin 7th), 2:55 am
The USA, Washington DC
Mar 26th, 6:25 pm (same time)
10 minutes were passed from the explosion,
Beside the injury of Roy Harding in Iran, the 2 scientific officers working on the bomb got killed and parts of the base damaged.
The air was dark and everything was calm and peaceful. Things went on as usual as every night. The American base was spending its ending hours of night.
‘I detect some unknown objects at the horizon, they are coming towards us, they are very near!’ an officer declared.
‘Which horizon?’
‘The eastern, side of Iran’
‘Speed?’
‘Like 1500 mil/h, sir, they are too many!’
Tens of Iranian fighters suddenly appeared in the sky over 3 or 4 military bases of the US in countries which bordered Iran. They’d flight through valleys and pathways that were impossible to be detected by radars until they were very near and were not expected as a result.
Regarding to not being informed about the bombing in Iran by israel and estimating Iran a passive state as it usually is, the attack was completely a surprise.
The United States didn’t really expect any such attack,
The base was alerted in one moment but even one moment was too late, the sky lit up over them and fire began raining, from the heaven to earth and the earth to heaven!
Attack to bases was the first thing that was informed to the American president in the beginning minutes; he angrily appeared on TV and condemned the invasion to the US bases and promised of fast response.
It was about 11:25 in Britain and Rose was in bed. The baby began crying and waked her up, she tried to feed her and make her stop crying, she was very tired but couldn’t sleep anymore, she was feeling as if a disaster had happened.
The little girl fell asleep, but Rose couldn’t sleep. Got up and opened the window, the cold fresh air of early spring filled her room, but she didn’t enjoy it anymore.
She remembered such a time last year, Roy and her knelt to pray to ask God for a child, it was years she didn’t want to give birth to a child after she lost her first child. Roy never complained this, but she always thought it was very selfish, then changed her idea last year, and now they had it.
Rose looked at the clock, it was 11:45. Still she felt nervous. Turned on the TV to see if they had anything to amuse her.
Suddenly she saw the highlighted subtitle: BREAKING NEWS: The Chain Of Violation Completes By The Unexpected Raid At The American Bases.
Rose rubbed her eyes and read the text again, the news was saying the news agency was looking for videos from the place of incident and analyzed the probable purposes of Iran.
Rose got very worried what this inopportune attack could mean, and what would happen if a war began?
The American military were getting ready to return the attack, but the Generals believed they must study more. What was the message of this attack and what the fate of their captive would be then?
But Iranians thought after the terrorist attack they had no more time to wait or they would be hit. The Iranian president came to the TV after 20 minutes and expressed what he called the wrath of Iranian nation from the “act of terror” and “hundredth proof” of hostility with the nation by the US and Zionist regime.
Tehran hadn’t received any report about the American officer who must had been in way there, although they guessed the officers didn’t get in touch to keep the secret. In fact Raha hadn’t found a chance to report the incident yet, she was helping Taha.
She sent Omid to the base immediately after they entered the hospital, and asked for urgent help.
Iran, Esfahan, hospital
Mar. 27th, 3:20 am
‘Hasn’t it been taken too long?’ Kaveh asked by the door of surgery room.
‘No it hasn’t’ replied Raha, ‘you would better rest a little’
‘How can I rest? I don’t even know if he is alive!’
‘He is. They had nothing more to stay inside for if he was dead’
Raha continued, ‘since day one you met him I noticed he was special to you, your great care and concern even softened him, something that I hardly expected’
‘Well, you don’t daily see enemies refuse bombing each other and land in the hostile soil voluntarily.’ Kaveh answered, ‘you’re right, he was very respectful to me even before I met him, like that son who returned to the father after he had separated and went away forever. (Bible, new testaments)’
‘I see, I’m happy you are so understanding about him, but you should calm down for now and rest, also you need to change your dress, you can’t read your morning prayer with that much blood on your uniform’
Raha’s certain tone ensured Kaveh. At this time Taha came out. Anxiety had really tired him. Kaveh couldn’t read anything in his face. Raha asked, ‘how’s he?’
‘He’s been a strong man though he’s lost a lot of blood, if he gets conscious he will live for sure … God willing’ he said and called the nurses out.
Esfahan, Military base
Mar. 27th, 3:20 am
‘Don’t worry, we’ll come to help right now, we are working hard to discover the spies, they must be a completely separated network from the one we discovered recently’ Colonel Rastgari told Omid, ‘we’ll send our guards in the uniform of nurses and doctors, but you will not go back to hospital because you have entered the hospital in military uniform once.’
In accompany with the hospital, many guards dressed in medical uniforms attended in the place. Their mission was to track and report any suspecting movement.
Raha was walking to and fro behind the door of surgery room. Kaveh went to change his dress. When he took off his uniform, held it on his hands and looked deeply at the blood covering it, thinking that his mate could die tonight harrowed him. Felt his head went round. Difficultly washed up and went back to the surgery part. Raha told him to go rest, he said he wanted to stay guarding, Raha said, ‘the hospital is full of guards, you’re not required tonight, you should rest to get ready for a difficult tomorrow!’
Even when Raha spoke softly it was a waste of time to argue with her, she wanted Kaveh to rest, and it meant he had to rest!
There was a small mosque for praying, Kaveh went there, but couldn’t rest, a lot of annoying thoughts had filled his mind. Got up and looked for the direction to pray.
As soon as he stood praying he felt calmer. Loneliness was now the best thing he had. Everywhere was dark and peaceful. He suddenly noticed how long he had had every kind of stress and how very he required relieving, but recalling Roy would die destroyed all of his calmness, a valuable life was dying by the hand of its own employers!
A tear dropped down from his eye and he told himself, ‘I am sorry, I was responsible for your life! If you didn’t know the danger of Zionism, I did!’
The continuous sing of a cricket adorned the purity of night. The cool clean breeze of early spring found its way in. Kaveh decided he should do something; he devoted the next day to fast for the sake of God!
After this decision, he felt a lot calmer.
Raha was in touch with the other guards in the hospital; she hadn’t even found time to sit down a little. Taha was also in way in the surgery room and back all the time.
‘How is it going?’ Raha asked Taha. Taha stopped and shook his head, indeed he didn’t know what to say; sat down beside her on the bench, felt how tired she was, how very he had counted down the days for her to come back to him, but it was not that meeting he wished. Hesitated for a while and then said, ‘someone must stay with the man during the night, will you do it yourself or you will trust a nurse?’
‘I will stay myself, our commanders also prefer one of their forces to attend with him’ she replied.
Taha led her in and while they couldn’t let in many nurses, Taha himself gave her a green cover.
‘Take off your boots and wear these please’ said Taha, ‘remember there are other patients too’
Raha looked at Taha longer than usual, and said ‘how very I’ve missed you within these few days!!’
Then she had a few seconds to think where she could hide her military boots not to be seen. She entered the Room where Roy’s bed was. He was unconscious.
‘Dear! The surgery room is not a good place to carry out an Intelligence operation!’ Taha stressed when he was going to leave.
‘I understand, thank you’ she answered smiling.
She sat on a chair and looked at the poor father, to her, the most important thing over the global political situations and national security and professional responsibilities, now was that if he ever could see his child. The electrocardiogram sang permanently, and gave a kind of relief to Raha as the sound of crickets relieved Kaveh a little further.
Kaveh was still standing praying.
At the same time the intelligence had noticed a suspecting flashing of light being seen around the hospital.
Many nurses were in the surgery ward, but they weren’t aware about the new guest of the hospital.
A policewoman dressed as a nurse called Mohyee looked in all of the rooms which had a window towards the flashing light.
All patients and their participators were asleep. There was a 14 year old boy playing a game with his cell phone.
‘You’re too young as a participator’ said Mohyee.
‘The age doesn’t matter nurse, the abilities do’ the boy replied.
‘Hmm good!’ she said, ‘is that your cell phone?’
‘Yes’
‘Does it have a camera?’
‘Yes’
‘Dear, you have to hand it over to the personnel of the hospital as long as you’re in’
His face changed, after a few seconds he said, ‘why? I need it! My mother is going to call me’
‘no problem, she will call the hospital, tonight the camera is not allowed here, then please give it to me, ok?’ she said.
The boy wasn’t able to decide what to do, told her, ‘a moment please’ then dialed a number and said, ‘hello, listen, I have to give the cell phone to a nurse… it is not my fault, they say it is the law! …’ then he lowered his voice not to let her hear and went on, ‘hey, what should I do then? Oh ok’
After she took the mobile and went away, she reported a brief to her commander, she said all were asleep but a child, but her commander informed her that a regular flashing stopped at the moment.
At once Mohyee looked at the receiver closely, the camera had a flash light, she rushed to meet the commander
‘Then the source of flashing’s been the same mobile I have in my hand now!’ Mohyee told the Commander, ‘is it possible that the boy’s been just playing?’ she continued.
‘No I don’t think’ said the commander, ‘they were signals like telegraph alphabet. It hardly can be an accident, we must study the signals, bring the boy here please’
Mohyee went back to the room where the boy was as fast as possible, but she didn’t find him there anymore…
On the other side the commander had recently ordered Raha to leave the hospital for a rest, she was asked to leave the hospital for 24 hours. The order removed her nightly peace! She really wanted to stay, it wasn’t a duty anymore, as long as Taha was home she had to stay at her post, now that Taha was here with her, she had to go home!
Besides, she didn’t want to leave the American Major in that situation and go home, she couldn’t relieve before she had a certain news about his health.
The commander asked her if she wanted a Sepah car to take her home, but she said she would call a taxi. She knew the attendance of the armed forces in the hospital must not appear unusual. With a heavy heart, she understood she had to leave.
When she stepped out she found it very difficult to go away, looked around, found a lonely light of a pharmacy on in the dark night.
Slowly walked towards it and sat on a bench by its door, put her head on her hand and many annoying thoughts came to her mind again.
Put her head on the wall and thought she was too rough to Roy in the interrogation. She saw an ambulance stopped before the hospital and to her very surprise so many armed israeli soldiers jumped out and rushed to the hospital. She startled suddenly and recognized she had fallen asleep!
Looked at her watch, it was about half an hour passed 4 am. The call of Azan had filled the environment. She felt weak for some moments, the short dream had badly affected her, but then tried to get up and search for the mosque from where the Azan was heard. It was not difficult to find it with green lights a few hundred meters down the street.
She had left the place when an ambulance stopped by the door of the hospital and then a car after it. An anxious family took off from the car and run into the hospital after the badly injured one who was taken in.
When she got ablution and read the short Morning Prayer she felt much better. Stayed in and honestly prayed for the safety of Roy, Taha, and her country.
Walking out she thought it was now easier for her to go home and be away from the hospital for a few hours.
Here, a voice attracted her attention; ‘I don’t believe it! Commander!
It was Omid standing out of the mosque; Kaveh was next to him, ‘hey! You must have been resting in the military base,’ said Raha, then turned to Kaveh and said, ‘and you must be resting in hospital!’
‘I couldn’t rest at all,’ said Kaveh with a somehow trembling voice, he continued, ‘when I heard Azan I came here to pray and I saw I wasn’t the only one that couldn’t rest. So what’s new about Roy? Conscious?’
‘Not yet as long as I was in,’ said Raha, then joked, ‘what are you going to do then? Stay here till your boycott time is over?’
Kaveh didn’t laugh with this joke, just looked down, Raha went ahead, ‘I mean if you want to stay here then you need to have something to eat.’
‘Well, I’m not hungry; I can’t eat with this anxiety.’ Answered Kaveh.
‘You have to, ok you two stay here, I’ll buy you something to eat’ said Raha and left them immediately.
Kaveh stopped her at once and said, ‘no please, see, I’m fasting! I devoted fast for the surviving of the American pilot!’
Raha turned back with a lot of surprise, but before her, it was Omid that remarked amazed, ‘but you didn’t eat last night also! It was when you and that one received the message from his wife, and then the alarm from the Intelligence’
‘Thank you for concerning about me, but as I said I’ve devoted!’ said Kaveh.
The reaction of Raha was just to say ‘oh!’ and returning towards the men.
‘Well then go buy something for you to eat’ said Kaveh.
‘I hadn’t thought we could fast,’ said Raha, ‘if you fast, then why not us?’
Some minutes pass and they were still in the yard of the mosque
‘You know I was thinking about the first day of attack.’ Said Kaveh.
‘Yeah when he landed’ said Raha, ‘but I was the first one who met him!’
Omid cut off his superior’s words, ‘no the first one was me!! In that dogfight I felt it was the first real battle I ever had in my life. When you see you on the edge of death you will use all of the arts you’ve ever learnt to survive. He was a great pilot!’
‘Was?’ Kaveh reacted immediately. Turned to Omid and said, ‘he is a great pilot!’
Omid remained silent. But Kaveh went on with a sigh, ‘he was under our protection, we had tied him down, and we were responsible to defend him as a result! …’
Kaveh was speaking when Omid said with surprise, ‘hey! See who’s coming!’
His superiors turned to the direction of his pointing, it was Taha; that had his head down and walked slowly to the direction of the mosque to read his morning prayer individually.
Raha got up but didn’t call him. He hadn’t seen them until he got near and heard the whisper of Kaveh to Raha, ‘please ask him how the major is’
Now he picked up his head and saw them, ‘oh I thought you were ordered to go rest’ …
When Taha finished his prayer Raha was still watching him. Taha looked back and breathed with relief. Omid was also in the mosque, playing with a rosary, Kaveh was lounging by the door where he could watch the traffic to and from the hospital.
‘Anything new about our colleague?’ Raha broke the silence.
Taha shook his head. Again silence filled the space.
Raha didn’t want a silence like this, again she said, ‘why did you come out with the hospital uniform them?’
‘You remember, I didn’t have time to dress and don’t have suitable cloths with me’ said Taha.
Kaveh said expressly, ‘how did you see him last night? How much chance he has to live?’
‘His right side was full of broken glass; he had lost a lot of blood, he was in the condition of coma when he was taken to the surgery room… err, I don’t know what to say anymore’ then looked at his face and remarked, ‘well I’m a doctor, have to say everything clearly’
They were worried for a serious thing, but they were going to have even more things to worry about, as the response of Iran to the explosion was to invade the American military bases with full power, after an hour a second round of attacks begun.
‘Commander! Again they are coming! Distance from the base: 40 mil’
‘One stop them for love of heavens’ the commander said with a great excitement, ‘what a hell for the US did not predict it?’
This time again the base faced a heavy raid, now after the first invasion the ground defense of the base was badly damaged, the ground was covered with fire in a second. The second round of the offensive was more distractive even though this time it was expected.
The cadre of hospital informed the Intelligence forces that this woman accompanies an accident ulcerous, before anything happens, then it didn’t seem something to worry about,
When the sky of Esfahan was completely light, the sun was just rising in the Iran Iraq border. The sunrise is the best time for attacking from the east to the west.
Now the American forces in Iraq had prepared to counter any attack. The American fighters were now in the sky patrolling when they were imparted the third round of Iranian attack had begun.
What happened this time was a real air battle!
blast in mosque prepared by Mussad
