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Fire in the DarknessChapter 23, flashback, remembering The escape from IranThis chapter has a mix of both Farsi and English clips from 2008 when I was traveling through Iran and forced to escape from the country! It was quite a night. What was supposed to be a 10 to 20 minute ordeal became a two day life life verses death ordeal on the Turkish border.
There is some clips in here from the actual horse ride.2021-09-0847 minFire in the DarknessChapter 22, Holly, Love and AbortionThe most tragic things that have happened in my life have nothing to do with losing my eyesight, losing my hearing, my brain cancer or the cancer I had in my testicle. Sure. All of these things are terrible. And the fact that I’ve become epileptic after my brain surgery isn’t fun either. But the worst things that have happened in my life are the two miscarriages and two abortions that have happened with Holly, Margie, Gretchen and Maria.2021-09-0608 minFire in the DarknessChapter 21 Margie, Gretchen and AbortionThis is a story about Margie, Gretchen and abortion.
I have lost four babies because of miscarriages and abortions. It has been devastating. Two abortions and two miscarriages.2021-08-0811 minFire in the DarknessChapter 20 - Blind love Makes World Go Round - Can't Function Without LoveMay have only months to live and I want to have children. This chapter talks a little about my struggles with meeting women as a blind person while fighting cancer, pain, and the emotional blows I have taken trying to find a partner in life. There’s a lot more to tell.
Make a man’s dying wish come true.
There is a lot of hope out there and one of the biggest hopes in life is life itself.
The biggest hope in the biggest dream is for me to have children and to give life.
Some may say why woul...2021-07-1719 minFire in the DarknessChapter 19, Sex, Gold Coins and Broken DreamsThis chapter discusses my arranged marriage and the issues that came up with it in Iran. recording that was done when I was on the border about to leave Iran into turkey. Recording was done over 12 years ago.2021-04-1018 minFire in the DarknessChapter 18, Gun Fire and DarknessWant to here some Farsi? This podcast is half in Farcy. Tells some of the story in Farsi. Gathers some audio clips from a dictaphone talking about my escape from Iran and the experience we had with gun fire on the border. The last segment is all Farsi. Most of it you can figure out. Last segment describes in Farsi the dream I talked about in Chapter 2.2021-04-0820 minFire in the DarknessChapter 17, Fight for Freedom - End of the BeginningThis chapter starts today and ends in the beginning of how my work in Iran started. Two episodes in one. Currently, I’m dealing with glioblastoma brain cancer and on a lot of medications. That’s why I got the date wrong in the beginning of the podcast. It’s not April 2, but April 4, 2021.2021-04-0514 minFire in the DarknessChapter 16, Escape from IranThis chapter describes how we escape from Iran in the middle of the night on our second attempt after being held by the Turkish military and sent back into Iran.2021-02-0115 minFire in the DarknessChapter 15, Peace on the mountain, Gun Fire and Landmines, between Iran and TurkeyThis chapter talks a little about how we were stuck between two countries and landmines. We were sent back into Iran by the Turkish military and had to deal with gunfire along with many other challenges.2021-02-0105 minFire in the DarknessChapter 14, Flash Back, Know Thy EnemyIn every nation around the world, people should be treated equally before the law and have the right to vote really in fairly in elections as well as the right to run for any political office2021-02-0104 minFire in the DarknessChapter 13, Flash Back, The Blind Spy, Working Under Cover Inside IranThis chapter talks a little about how I went under cover inside Iran to develop a grassroots bottom up organization for democracy and human rights. I traveled across the country meeting with many different people in numerous cities. I also wrestled with military, police and generals commandos.2021-02-0108 minFire in the DarknessChapter 12, Flash Back, Iran, Washington DC, Politics and DemocracyThis is a flashback to when I first went to Washington DC and began work on human rights and democracy in Iran.2021-02-0105 minFire in the DarknessChapter 11, Flash Back, The Beginning, Love, Marriage and IranChapter 11 is a flashback to the first time I return to Iran since I was four years old during the 1979 revolution. It is about my love life, an arranged marriage that went bad and how I fell in love with a country.2021-02-0108 minFire in the DarknessChapter 10, Flash Back, Arman Soltani, The Early YearsChapter 10 is a flash back to the early years and life of Arman Soltani, a deaf blind cancer surviver fighting for democracy in Iran. Arman is now fighting glioblastoma multiform, the deadliest form of brain cancer, which doctor say there’s no cure for. Arman had brain surgera year ago which has also caused lesions in the brain and he now deals with seizures and black out. These chapters were recorded before the brain cancer. Soltani is developing a helthy living cancer retreat to support finding a cure for brain cancer and is working with others to establish a foundation to...2021-01-2307 minFire in the DarknessChapter 9, Prisoners in TurkeyA two day nightmare stuck between two countries. This chapter describes how we were captured and held by the Turkish military and then sent walking back into Iran in the middle of the night towards landmines and gunfire.2021-01-2317 minFire in the DarknessChapter 8, Only the Strong SurviveThis is part two of my horse adventure with smugglers and escaped from Iran. It talks about how we were hunted by the Turkish military and how we had to hide in a small stone hut.2021-01-2205 minFire in the DarknessChapter 7, Fallen HorseThe horse was malnourished and skinny. Never seen a horse fall before. But this horse was laying next to me on the ground after it slipped down a hill. This chapter talks about my adventures between Iran and Turkey. There is actual audio at the end from my dictaphone. Our midnight escape from Iran.2021-01-2009 minFire in the DarknessChapter 6, The Kurdish UndergroundIn this chapter, I connect with smugglers and hide in a Kurdish village and start my travel across the boarder into Turkey by horse back with one hundred refugees trying to escape Iran. A thirty minute trip turned into a two day fight for life and freedom.2021-01-1909 minFire in the DarknessChapter 5, Search for SmugglersChapter 5 discribes how I hired smugglers from the Kirdish underground to get out of Iran and my experiences in a boarder city called Urumeh. Iran Flag The map shows Iran, an Islamic state between the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. The country is officially named the Islamic Republic of Iran. Until the 1980s in the Western world, Persia was historically the common name for Iran.
Persia was a monarchy until 1979 when the last Persian Shah Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in a popular uprising, headed by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Iran borders Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq...2021-01-1810 minFire in the DarknessChapter 4, Fight for Freedom, Democracy and Human RightsFight for freedom, democracy and human rights. Join the government, become part of the police and encourage cooperation from within. What fool doesn't want their nation to prosper? Podcast starts with a song by Basiji soldiers while we sat by a river relaxing and discussing the infiltration of the highest levels of the command structure. basiji is private militia kind of like the national guard in the United States but they’re a bunch of religious fanatics. Although many are forced to joined this organization in one way or another because it’s so integrated into the fabric of society. Like...2021-01-1710 minFire in the DarknessChapter 3, Rude AwakeningThis is chapter 2 of the unreleased draft of my book, fire in the darkness. The book is being completed in order to create a documentary about Iran, the fight for freedom and the people struggle for democracy. It also tells my story, the story of Arman Soltani, and how one person is fighting to make a difference. Just like all of us can.2021-01-1608 minFire in the DarknessChapter 2, The Blood DreamsA flashback in time about a blood dream. Chapter 2 of fire in the darkness. The story about Iran, the struggle for human rights and the fight for2021-01-1515 minFire in the DarknessChapter 1, Dreams of WarIntroduction to Fire in the Darkness, Chapter 1, Dreams of War, Soltani2021-01-1104 min