Bakhshi

"The more carriers, the better," said Shiv Bakhshi, an analyst at research firm Mobile Perspectives.

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But Bakhshi and his totemic sniper rifle were barely visible as the regime fought for its life.

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Rajabi was in awe of the new martyrs, and of Bakhshi, who repeatedly flung himself at the inferno to save those trapped inside.

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He watched Iran-Iraq War videos—the “home” video playing when I was there showed Bakhshi sharing lunch with soldiers in a frontline trench.

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When I departed, Bakhshi was like a rattling caricature and sent me off with a bullet-hanging hug.

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This icon of resistance, this fearless bear of a man who was always ready to run barefoot to defend the nezam, had been fighting for his own life in a hospital at the end of 2008, struck down by a heart attack, and then lapsed into a coma.23 Bakhshi revived long enough to attend a September 2009 pro-regime rally, but he was a fragile husk of his former self.

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Haji Bakhshi Fights the Flames, 1986: “They were men of action, not just men of words.”

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Waving his arm threateningly, just as he did on that day toward Saddam Hussein, Bakhshi said he broadcast his own message back to the Iraqi leader: “I went to the other world, and now I have come back to take you with me again!”

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“Haji Bakhshi at the Hospital in Bed,” Fars News Agency, December 30, 2008, at www.farsnews.net/imgrep.php?

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Bakhshi spent a day in prison for riots surrounding the CIA-engineered coup in 1953.

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