mr. khomeini before. i remember it was winter when i had been transferred out of that cell in 974 -- 1974. on that day mr. khomeini who was very thin was shivering. i gave him my jacket. and with tears in his eyes, he told me, houshang, under the islamic government not a single tear will be shed by the innocent. houshang, under islamic -- excuse me. excuse me. he told me, houshang, under the islamic government not a single tear will be shed by the innocent, but, in fact, in the new islamic republic i had just been put in prison by the regime. my crime was that i worked at a newspaper belonging to a leftist political party that supported the islamic republic of iran. and in regime in which no tear was supposed to be shed, i learned of ideological torture. i have described this torture in my book, and it is very clear that its purple was to break the -- purpose was to break the person utterly. today almost 30 years since my imprisonment, my foot is still bare from the whipping. when i received my first slap