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A story of the martyrdom of a family member on the third day of the Zionist regime's invasion of Tehran
The tragedy of a retired private sector employee with no military record
Yousef Heydari
Journalist
For him, life is divided into before and after the martyrdom of his brother and family. When the news of their martyrdom in their residential house collapsed on him like rubble, he could not believe that they had become victims of the enemy's hatred. This time, Saeed Mousavi's family, like dozens of other families, were martyred by the Zionist enemy. The Israeli regime, which claimed from the first day of the invasion of Iran that it had not targeted any civilians and that it would not harm residential houses, once again showed by martyring the members of this family that it sacrifices men, women, and children to achieve its sinister goals.
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 15, a three-story residential house in Mohebi Alley on Shariati Street in Tehran was targeted, and Saeed Mousavi's family members who were at home were martyred along with several residents of the building. A retired couple who had recently moved into this rented house were killed by an enemy missile an hour after their daughter returned home from work. The intensity of this brutal attack was so great that the three-story building completely collapsed and black smoke filled the sky. With the help of people and rescuers, the body of the family’s daughter was pulled out of the rubble in the early hours, but the bodies of the parents were buried under heavy rubble.
The world collapsed on me
Mohammad is the only survivor of the Mousavi family. He was at work on the day of the disaster when he was contacted by the locals and returned home. But there was no news of the house and the entire family had been killed. Bita Mousavi, who worked for many years as a cultural reporter for various newspapers and media outlets, recounted the moment her brother’s family was killed in an interview with Iran Newspaper: “My house is a block down from my brother’s house. They had recently moved to Mohebbi Alley on Shariati Street. An old three-story house that had been renovated. At 3:40 p.m. on Sunday, after the Faraja headquarters and Sabunchi Street in District 7 were targeted, Mohebi Alley on Shariati Street was also hit. A terrifying sound filled the sky of Tehran. It was 4 p.m. when my nephew Mohammad called and said that their house had been hit. When I heard this news, my world collapsed on me. I don’t know how I got there. Black smoke filled the sky. Since my brother and his family had recently moved there, I didn’t know which house in Mohebi Alley they lived in. When I saw the three-story house that had been destroyed, my legs went weak. At that moment, I prayed to God that this wasn’t my brother’s house. One of the rescue workers asked me my last name, and when I said it, Mousavi pointed to the destroyed house and said, “This is your brother’s house.” I fell to the ground. The three-story house that had been renovated some time ago, and my brother and his family had rented the second floor, had been razed to the ground. I called out my brother’s name, his wife, and his daughter, hoping that they might be alive, but they told me that only one person in the building survived. He continued: “My nephew Mohammad was at work that day, and his sister, who had finished work earlier, came home from work and called Mohammad an hour later to say that everyone was home. I couldn’t look at Mohammad’s face. He had lost all his family members and his life. Mohammad was looking at the house where his parents had been waiting for him to return just a few hours earlier, but now it had been razed to the ground, screaming. They told us that three bodies had been pulled from the second floor of the building, which was my brother’s house, but we only saw Haditha’s lifeless body and her bloody face. The only survivor of the building was a middle-aged man who had been in the stairwell when the building was hit. »
They were innocent
When talking about the personality traits of her brother and family, tears flow from her eyes. Bita continues with bitterness: «My brother and his wife were retired from a private company, and their daughter Haditha had also been working for a few years. They were not military and were ordinary citizens. They worked honorably for 30 years and were always an example of a moral and selfless couple for all of us. That night, some friends helped me a lot to find the bodies of my brother and his family, and if it weren’t for this help, I might not have found my nephew’s body. That night, we went to the Ascension of the Martyrs and were told that we had to go to the forensic medicine. There, too, they showed us incomprehensible photos, and we were only able to identify Haditha from one of the photos. After that, we found her body in the morgue of the Crisis Headquarters. But the bodies of my brother and his wife have not yet been identified, and they told us that after DNA testing, their identities will be identified among the bodies that were pulled out of the building. To identify the body of my brother's wife, they took a DNA test from my nephew, and to identify my brother, they need to take a test from my mother. Unfortunately, we have encountered some irregularities along the way, which may be due to the current circumstances. We are waiting for the test results and identification of the bodies of my brother Saeed, his wife Fatima, and their daughter Haditha to be handed over so that we can bury them. Haditha was a girl full of passion for life. She always thought about the bright future that she was trying to build through work. I still can't believe that she is no longer with us. "Bita Mousavi said about this crime of the Zionist regime: "In my opinion, war is always accompanied by destruction, and many innocent people are sacrificed in war. My brother and his family were innocent people who were martyred by the criminal enemy. "They were an honorable family who lived like many ordinary people in the country. They were martyred like dozens of innocent men, women, and children who were targeted in their homes by the Israeli regime's attacks since Friday."