On March 2, 2026, two children were killed and two other people – a two-year-old girl and her grandmother – were severely injured in an alleged U.S. and/or Israeli airstrike on a house in the Shahid Mahallati neighbourhood of Tehran, Iran.

On March 8, Mehr News reported (via Telegram) that the United States and Israel had carried out attacks on numerous civilian targets and announced that “in one of these attacks on March 2, in the Shahid Mahallati neighborhood of Tehran, a house was targeted […] and in this spiteful attack, Zahra Sadat Seyadat Mousavi, the seven-year-old […] was killed.” It also reported that “in this bitter incident, Maryam Sadat, the two-year-old sister of Zahra Sadat, was also […] severely injured.”

The same evening, Twitter/X user @mostafashoghi posted a photo of a man dressed in religious attire cradling a child’s shrouded body in his arms and wrote that “tonight, when the Laylat al-Qadr has passed, the size of a lifetime; the seven-year-old martyr Zahra Sadat Seyadat Mousavi from the family of martyr Parvar Zein al-Din was ascended to Karbala when she came into her father’s arms.” Laylat al-Qadr, which occurs during Ramadan, is considered the holiest night in the Islamic calendar. It celebrates the night Muslims believe the Qur’an was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

On March 10, ANA news agency reported that Zahra’s “sister and grandmother were also seriously injured in the attack and are still in a coma.” The outlet also published a video of Zahra’s funeral, in which a large crowd of mourners carry her small shrouded body as they bid her a final farewell. The article also included a photo of several grieving women gathered around Zahra’s grave, which is decorated with many flowers.

Nearly a month after the attack, on April 1, Twitter/X user @MirdamadiSeraj posted a photo of a small grave decorated with flowers and photos and wrote that “the secular aid of American-[Israeli] democracy for peace and human rights arrived with missile attacks and the killing and slaughter of civilians; Zahra Sadat Seyadat Mousavi, a 6-year-old martyr of the Ramadan War, rests in Plot 42 of Behesht Zahra in Tehran.”

In a video posted on Instagram by @golzar.story on April 21, Zahra’s father passes through his destroyed house and describes the aftermath of the strike and his attempts to locate and identify his children. At one point, he found a body that he believed was Zahra’s but which turned out to be the body of a five-year-old girl who was their neighbour. The video’s caption also mentions that “in the last lines of [Zahra’s] notebook, she wrote only about her endless love for her younger sister.”