TEHRAN – A memoirs of an Iranian interrogation officer from a camp of Iraqi prisoners of war has been published in a book by Sureh-Mehr in Tehran

“The Officers with Red Boots” was unveiled at the Art Bureau in Tehran during a ceremony, which was attended by the interrogation officer, Morteza Bashiri, writer Fatemeh Behbudi and a number of cultural figures.
  
Art Bureau director Mohsen Momeni-Sharif compared the book to a compelling detective story and expressed his hope that the book would be the beginning of a new direction in the genre of literature that had flourished following the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is called the Sacred Defense in Iran.

“We treated the Iraqi prisoners in a way that they felt at ease around of us,” Bashiri said.

“Sometimes, we talked with some of them all through the night without using any pressure,” he stated.

Photo: Former interrogation officer Moretza Bashiri speaks during the unveiling ceremony of “The Officers with Red Boots”, his memories of Iraqi prisoners of war in Iran, at the Art Bureau in Tehran on September 4, 2017. (Mehr/Maryam Kamyab)

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