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Fire in the Darkness
by Arman Soltani
Fire in the darkness is about Iran, democracy and the struggle for freedom! A gripping inspirational story about one person struggle against two countries and their intelligence agencies. From the CIA to the mafia regime occupying Iran, the struggle for democracy is real!
Episodes
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Chapter 23, flashback, remembering The escape from Iran
This 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…
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Chapter 22, Holly, Love and Abortion
The 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...
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Chapter 21 Margie, Gretchen and Abortion
This 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.
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Chapter 20 - Blind love Makes World Go Round - Can't Function Without Love
May 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…
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Chapter 19, Sex, Gold Coins and Broken Dreams
This 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.
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Chapter 18, Gun Fire and Darkness
Want 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...
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Chapter 17, Fight for Freedom - End of the Beginning
This 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.
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Chapter 16, Escape from Iran
This 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.
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Chapter 15, Peace on the mountain, Gun Fire and Landmines, between Iran and Turkey
This 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.
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Chapter 14, Flash Back, Know Thy Enemy
In 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 office
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Chapter 13, Flash Back, The Blind Spy, Working Under Cover Inside Iran
This 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.
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Chapter 12, Flash Back, Iran, Washington DC, Politics and Democracy
This is a flashback to when I first went to Washington DC and began work on human rights and democracy in Iran.
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Chapter 11, Flash Back, The Beginning, Love, Marriage and Iran
Chapter 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.
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Chapter 10, Flash Back, Arman Soltani, The Early Years
Chapter 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...
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Chapter 9, Prisoners in Turkey
A 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.
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Chapter 8, Only the Strong Survive
This 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.
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Chapter 7, Fallen Horse
The 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.
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Chapter 6, The Kurdish Underground
In 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.
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Chapter 5, Search for Smugglers
Chapter 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...
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Chapter 4, Fight for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights
Fight 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…
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Chapter 3, Rude Awakening
This 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...
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Chapter 2, The Blood Dreams
A 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 for
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Chapter 1, Dreams of War
Introduction to Fire in the Darkness, Chapter 1, Dreams of War, Soltani
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Fire in the darkness is about Iran, democracy and the struggle for freedom! A gripping inspirational story about one person struggle against two countries and their intelligence agencies. From the CIA to the mafia regime occupying Iran, the struggle for democracy is real!
HOSTED BY
Arman Soltani
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