Manouchehr Kuhne was born in 1323 in a Jewish family in Tehran. Mr. Kuhne holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Tehran and was teaching at the Polytechnic School of Tehran as an assistant professor of architecture. He was also working as a building instructor at the Tehran Fine Arts Technical Center.

In this issue of the “Khat-e-Solh” magazine, we went to Mr. Kuhne, who was a member of the board of directors of the Klimian Association since April 1978 and was arrested by security forces in late spring of 1984 at his office, given the special topic of the magazine.

Mr. Manouchehr Kuhne talks about his arrest: “I was more or less expecting such a story. For example, we had a confrontation with Mr. Rajai, who unfortunately was carrying the title of President of Iran at that time… It was very simple. I am

Manouchehr Kuhne talked about his interrogations, saying: “Most of my interrogations were in the first 3 months. There were a lot of interrogations and one of the interrogators had a really insulting and ugly behavior, not comparable to prison guards. You see, there was torture. Well, I wasn’t a spy and they would ask me what connection I had with Israel, even though I had no connection and I would say what connection…! Of course, there were a lot of interrogations and they would tell me to write and explain who did what, what they said, who the Israeli agent was, etc. Of course, the things that happened were not a thousandth of the things that happened to others…”
“I myself have built several schools, hospitals and even a mosque in Iran for free, but these were seen as negative points for me and they would say I built them as a cover for my spying activities. Or for example, I had memor