Last modified: 2024-07-20 by ian macdonald
Keywords: foundation of martyrs and veterans' affairs | iran |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
![[Foundation of Martyrs and Martyr's Affairs]](../images/i/ir_fmma.gif)
image located by Esteban
Rivera, 2 January 2018
See also:
بنیاد شهید و امور ایثارگران (English: Foundation of Martyrs (of the Islamic
Revolution) and Veterans' Affairs) is is a state-funded government office in Iran
that is responsible for dealing with the affairs of the Martyrs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_in_Iran#Revolution)
and Veterans' families, such as home loans to Disabled Veterans and the families
of the Martyrs. This institution has a legal personality and financial and
administrative autonomy and its affairs are governed by the rules and
regulations of the public non-governmental organizations and are governed by the
statute of the law and the relevant regulations under the supervision of the
President and the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Council. The head of the
foundation is appointed by the Supreme Leader, as the representative of the
Supreme Leader and with the presidential decree as head of the foundation for
four years.
The idea of establishing such an institution dates back to
the June 5, 1964 demonstrations (Persian calendar year 1342) where a group of
militant clerics was considering the aid of families of the victims of such
demonstration afterwards. The organization was established as بنیاد شهید انقلاب
اسلامی (English: Islamic Revolutionary Martyr Foundation), on March 12, 1980 to
address the situation of the martyrs' families, as well as to address the issues
of the disabled and the victims of the Islamic Revolution. On 1997 several
measures were approved and entered into effect in 1998, according to the Decree
of the Supreme Leaderas well as the Resolution of the Supreme Administrative
Council, the plan for the integration of the martyr's institutions in a unified
structure was approved by the government, and thus the Islamic Revolution Martyr
Foundation was renamed to the Martyrs 'and Martyrs' Affairs, by merging the
three existing organizations, which were:
- بنیاد شهید انقلاب (English:
Foundation (of the) Islamic Revolutionary Martyrs)
- سازمان جانبازان انقلاب
اسلامی (English: Organization of Veterans of the Islamic Revolution)
- ستاد
رسیدگی به امور تأسیس شده و دارای (English: Directorate for (the) Revolutionary
Guards Disabled and Revolutionary Guards Disabled Affairs)
Sources:
http://www.isaar.ir/vsdgp,9eki5arjar!9pre5.4r.html,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_of_Martyrs_and_Veterans_Affairs
and
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki
The flag is a white horizontal with the
emblem (http://img8.irna.ir/1395/13950923/82344813/82344813-71244967.jpg)
in the middle, as seen here (second flag from left to right):
http://www.isaar.ir/images/docs/000231/n00231155-b.jpg (source:
http://www.isaar.ir/doc/news/fa/231155).
Here's a variant desktop
flag, featuring the same design as described
above with a red fringe on the
flag's outline, as seen here:
http://www.isaar.ir/images/docs/000231/n00231023-b.jpg (source:
http://www.isaar.ir/doc/news/fa/231023/ )
And here's a variant with
yellow outline:
https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1394/12/15/13941215131728127274794.jpg
(source:
https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa)
For additional information go to ISAAR
(official website): http://www.isaar.ir
Esteban Rivera, 2 January 2018
![[Foundation of Martyrs and Martyr's Affairs]](../images/i/ir_fmma2.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 30 June 2024
Source:
https://www.tasnimnews.com
A variation of the "Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs" flag; c.
Sept. 2021. This flag mimics the national flag of Iran, but has an added a wide,
vertical white-stripe along the left hoist side. At the top "canton area" of
this additional white stripe is the logo of the Foundation, with below it
indiscernible Farsi slogans flowing down to the bottom which undoubtedly praise
the heroism of the shaheed (martyrs). Dozens of this flag were displayed
alongside the graves of Iranian soldiers buried at the Hoveizeh/Hoveyzeh
Martyr's Cemetery. The city of Hoveizeh/Hoveyzeh was hit with chemical bombs
from Iraq during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War.
William Garrison, 30 June
2024
![[Martyrs Remembrance flag]](../images/i/ir_fmva.gif)
image located by William Garrison, 28 November 2022
"Rick Steve's IRAN" show on
YouTube of May 2014
(although produced in April 2009) about the 36:07 minute-mark shows a "shahada"
or "martyr" remembrance flag honoring the Iranian soldiers who died during the
1980s-era war between Iraq and Iran. This "Martyr Remembrance" flag looks
similar to the national Iran flag. However, in the bottom red-stripe there are
12 white "tulips" that are symbols for those who have died in defense of Iran.
Also, the tulip was the flower of Allah/God because the letters used in the
Ottoman Empire the word for "tulip" (لال) are the letters used to write the name
of Allah/God in Arabic or Farsi: (الله). Near the fly side, there is the "logo"
of the Iranian "Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs". Other differences
include a red slogan and a thin green stripe near the bottom of the white
stripe. This flag was seen at a martyrs cemetery in Esfahan, Iran, c. spring
2009.
William Garrison, 28 November 2022
