People
Ebrahimi Tork, Ebrahim
Author: Masoumeh Abedini
24 بازدید
Ebrahim Ebrahimi Tork (1956–1980) was a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Yazd.
Ebrahim Ebrahimi Tork was born in 1956 in Qom. He completed his primary and secondary education at Mostofi and Din-o-Danesh Schools in Qom respectively. He lost his father at the age of eleven. In 1970, he began his secondary education at Qods Industrial School and graduated with a diploma in electrical engineering in 1973. Ebrahimi then sought further education at Babolsar Technical University, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1978. In the meantime, he would participate in popular protests and demonstrations against the Pahlavi regime.
In 1978, Ebrahimi was conscripted into the military. After completing a thirteen-week basic military training course, he served the remainder of his military service in the education sector, specifically at the Technical Teachers Training Center in Yazd. Once when traveling to Yazd, Ebrahimi met a cleric, leading to his connection with the combatant group Mansouroun. He used to discreetly distribute pamphlets and photographs of Imam Khomeini (ra) among his friends.
Following the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Revolutionary Committee, he joined them and served as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Committee in Yazd for eight months. Meanwhile, he was teaching in different schools. Ebrahimi played a significant role in the formation of the IRGC in Yazd and subsequently served as its commander for six months.
During his tenure, Ebrahimi was instrumental in arresting former regime officials and SAVAK agents. When discussing him, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadouqi said: "I have never seen a young man as active as him. He united students, clergies, and the public. He discovered the centers of torture and terror. Once he showed me a big building with different rooms for different methods of torturing, such as with electricity, pulling nails, etc. Ebrahimi turned such a place into a center of Jihad. He then wrote the phrase 'La ilaha illallah' (There is no god but Allah) in beautiful calligraphy and hung it on the wall, transforming the building into the headquarters of the IRGC. He was later appointed as the commander of IRGC in Yaza".
When counter-revolutionary groups made Kurdistan, particularly Sanandaj, a hub for their activities, Ebrahimi was deployed twice by the IRGC to Sanandaj. During his third deployment, he and a group of colleagues met with Imam Khomeini (ra) to provide him with updates of the conflicts. Imam Khomeini (ra) praised them, stating, "It is you who are the true servants of the nation". Ebrahimi's humbleness and sincerity attracted many young people to join the IRGC and go to the front lines.
Due to the provocations at the border by the Baathist regime of Iraq in the first half of 1980, Ebrahimi, along with several IRGC members, went to Qasr-e Shirin. While reciting Dua Kumayl with a group of combatants, he was injured by pieces of shrapnel from a mortar shell and on May 2, 1980, due to the severity of his injuries, he was martyred in Sarpol-e Zahab Hospital.
The body of Ebrahimi was transported to his birthplace, Qom, and was buried in the Golzar Shohada (Cemetery of Martyrs) of Sheikhhan, near the shrine of Lady Masoumeh (as).[1]
[1] Reference: A Summary of an article published in the Sacred Defense Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, Tehran, The Center of Encyclopedia of the Sacred Defense Research Institute, 2011, Pp. 269-270.
