[1] In this operation, the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran planned to kill a number of writers and poets, but it did not succeed.
[3] The motive of the trip was an invitation of an Armenian-Iranian individual from the members of the Writers' Association of Iran for cultural exchange and holding poetry sessions, speeches and press interviews for three nights.
[2] From the initial list Ahmad Shamlou, Houshang Golshiri and Reza Baraheni refused to go on the trip and finally 21 people boarded the bus: Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou, Ali Babachahi, Javad Mojabi, Masoud Behnoud, Siros Alinejad, Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Bijan Bijari, Bijan Najdi, Mohammed Mohammad Ali, Shahriar Mandanipour, Shapour Jourkesh, Masoud Tufan, Hasan Asghari, Manochehar Karimzadeh, Kamran Jalili, Mahmoud Tayari , Faraj Sarkohi, Fereshte Sari, Majid Danesharaste, Ali Siddiqi and Mansour Koushan.
A little later, he jumped out of the bus again and Tufan took the wheel again and Shahriar Mandanipour pulled the handbrake.
The intelligence officer, Moustafa Kazemi, took them to Astara prison and threatened to keep the story quiet.