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(Previous Incident Code: ISIR260327g )
Around noon on Friday, March 27, 2026, an alleged Israeli and/or US military airstrike hit Firuzabad cement factory mine in the Fars province of Iran, killing two mine employees – Farzad Esfandiari Bayat and Hossein Kavoosi Rak’ati – and injuring two employees whose identities are unknown at the time of writing.
On Telegram, Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA (@irna_1313) reported that the head of the political, security and social deputy of the Fars governorate, Jalil Hassani, announced an airstrike by a fighter jet belonging to the US and/or Israeli military on the Firouzabad cement factory mine and claimed that this attack had so far resulted in two deaths and two injuries among civilian workers. Jalil Hassani added that the attack happened around noon and that “this mine is an active industrial center where ordinary people from the hardworking class of society were working to make a living.”
On Telegram, @AkhbareFori also confirmed the information about two deaths and two injuries resulting from the strike.
On Instagram, Tamin Cement Investment Company (@siman_tamin) mourned the loss of its two employees and the injury of two further employees, writing that this “caused great pain and sorrow to the large family of the company.” The tribute also expressed that “in these sad circumstances, we honor the memory and names of these loved ones and express our condolences to their respected families, their colleagues in the Fars Nou Cement Company, and all the workers in the cement industry, and we share their grief.” The post was accompanied by the portraits of the two victims.
@siman_tamin also dedicated a separate post to Farzad Esfandiari, “one of the hardworking and honorable colleagues of the Fars Nou Cement Factory,” who was killed while serving in the factory mine and was buried in his hometown, the village of Bajgah, Fars Province. The post was accompanied by a video showing a large funeral procession where the coffin containing Farzad’s body was carried throughout the village.
A lengthy report by Fars News characterized Farzad as a “hardworking worker, a devoted father and a kind husband who bore the burden of life not as a commander, but as an ordinary and honorable man. He was one of those people whose names may be short in statistics, but whose traces remain long and lasting in the hearts of his family and people.” Farzad’s wife, Fereshteh Keshavarz, spoke to Fars and said that her late husband learned the hardship of life in his early years. As a teenager, he reportedly cared for his grandparents as their nurse and caregiver, and also studied and worked simultaneously to support the family. She added that Farzad was very kind, good-natured, and generous during his lifetime, and even though he himself did not have a good financial situation, he always helped children who were without guardians.
Fereshteh and Farzad had a four-year-old son, Karen, and one of the images posted by the media outlet showed Farzad outdoors, holding Karen’s hand. Another image showed Farzad, a young man with a black mustache, dressed in black, standing near a sarcophagus.
News agency Pana reported on its website that the funeral of the second victim, Hossein Kavoosi Rak’ati, was held in the city of Izeh. The media outlet reported that “after holding the farewell ceremony, his body was escorted from the Velayat Square of Izeh city on the shoulders of the grateful people and to the flower garden of the martyrs of Rawdat al-Zahra (PBUH).”
@siman_tamin also reported on the “magnificent funeral” of Hossein, “the oppressed and honorable truck driver, who was martyred following an enemy airstrike while working in the mine of the Fars Nou Cement Factory in Firuzabad.” The video from the funeral showed a large gathering of people with Iranian flags, singing religious songs.
A reporter of Borna News from Ahvaz emphasized that the funeral and burial ceremony of “martyr Hossein Kavousi Rak’ati” was held in Izeh city with the presence of Reza Nejati (Head of the Political and Social Deputy of the Khuzestan Governorate), Hamid Silavi (Director General of Social and Cultural Affairs of the Governorate), Friday Imam, Governor, local officials and various segments of the people.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli and/or US military.
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Reports of the incident mention the Fars Nou Cement Factory Mine in Firuzabad (معدن کارخانه سیمان فارس نو در فیروزآباد), Fars Province (فارس), for which the generic coordinates are: 29.116662, 52.672396. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.