Source
Archive URL: https://airwars.org/source/t-me-%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%ac%d9%86%da%af-340-2026-06-08-170500/
Captured Post Date:
2026-06-08 17:05
Translated Author:
Majeraye Jang [The story of the war]
Author:
ماجرای جنگ
Translated Content:
The War Story 2, Narrated by Javad Mogoui
Narrative 18: Lamard
Includes Video:
Yes
Translated Video Transcript:
[Introduction to the video]
The type of missiles that struck here is different from the ones used everywhere else in Iran.
Pay attention: 180,000 fragments struck people in a 360-degree radius.
There are no fewer than 700 or 800 of them.
Look, that building over there belongs to the Basij.
The girls were running out through this gate; two of them were left behind.
—
[The video begins]
This is Lamerd County, south of Shiraz. On the first day of the war, at 5:10 p.m., four missiles struck this area: 21 people were killed and 170 or 180 were injured.
This happened six hours after the attack on Minab, which is why Lamerd completely disappeared from the news. A few days ago, one of my friends called me and said, “Get up and come here. The type of missiles that struck this place is different from the ones used everywhere else in Iran.” That is why I came here, after 90 days.
The first missile struck here. This is a residential complex, behind the nursing school. The second missile struck over there, behind those trees, also in the middle of the houses. The third missile struck this same residential complex again. The fourth missile hit this stadium. There is a school behind the stadium. Do you see those slides? That is the school. Behind the school is a Basij building. This is the post office. That building you can see over there, which is riddled with shrapnel, is the blood transfusion center. Behind it is the University Jihad building, which is also full of shrapnel holes.
This is the City Council building that I am standing on. Now let us go downstairs so that I can show you everything again, one by one, from ground level.
[Text over the video: The crime committed by the Zionist regime in Lamerd County]
At first, I said that four missiles had struck the ground. But none of the missiles actually hit the ground directly. That is precisely what distinguishes the missiles used here from those used in other cities: they exploded approximately 15 to 20 meters above the ground, dispersing fragments in a 360-degree radius.
In other words, their warheads were not like those of other explosive missiles. These were fragmentation warheads. Each warhead contained 180,000 fragments. Pay attention: 180,000 fragments struck people in a 360-degree radius.
The area between the first and third impact sites, here, is full of fragments. Just look at the ground: it is covered with them. I think there are between 1,000 and 1,500 fragments on the ground. A large fragment, for example, penetrated this truck trailer. The missile itself did not strike the trailer. A fragment hit it and caused it to catch fire.
Ordinary people were out in the street and in the courtyards of their homes. Everyone who was there was hit by the fragments.
Look at how the fragments penetrated the asphalt. They cannot even remove them. Do you see? Look at how badly this house was damaged. This building alone was struck by approximately 300 or 400 fragments. This type of attack is designed solely to cause human casualties.
Masoumeh Monfared and Abedin Gharib-Doust were a mother and son. They were standing in front of their home when the fragments suddenly struck them and killed them. Do you see the shrapnel holes? This building alone was struck by more than 200 or 300 fragments.
In Tehran, for example, they struck a police station or a building and razed it to the ground. Two or three neighboring houses were also severely damaged, and perhaps another seven or eight houses were affected by the blast wave. But nowhere in Tehran do you see streets, asphalt, and homes riddled with holes like this. There, you might find 10, 20, or 40 [shrapnel holes]. Here, there are more than 700 or 800.
The second missile struck here. This location is approximately 500 meters from the residential complex hit by the first missile. When the first missile strikes, people instinctively pour into the street in fear. That is precisely the behavior the second missile is designed to anticipate and exploit. In other words, it is programmed so that, once people come outside after the first explosion, the second explosion and its fragments strike them.
Altogether, the four missiles injured 160 or 170 people. The injured then flooded the hospital emergency room. Now imagine: a hospital in a small county simply does not have the capacity to treat such a large number of casualties.
[Phone call with emergency services]
— Hello, emergency services. How can I help you?
— They bombed this place. There are several injured people. We have a lot of injured people.
— How many people are injured?
— His eyes are open, but he is not breathing. Please come.
— How many people did you say? Three?
— No, many more. Many more.
So many injured people poured into the hospital that Dr. Mousavi, the city’s representative in parliament, who is himself a surgeon, came in and began operating on them.
Avina Barzegar was also killed here. She was a two-year-old girl. One fragment struck her in the side and another struck her in the chest. Dr. Mousavi operated on her for three or four hours. But it was no use.
Look at this. See how the fragment pierced the cement and penetrated inside. It went approximately three finger joints deep into the concrete. Look: it resembles a pellet. It is made of tungsten. Because it is hot, it tears through the material and penetrates inside. Now imagine it entering the body of Avina, a two-year-old child. It tears through the stomach and intestines and destroys them.
Each missile contained 180,000 fragments. Four missiles means 720,000 fragments, in a city with a total population of approximately 30,000 people. It is as though they had allocated 24 fragments for every person.
God showed mercy. It was Ramadan, and people were inside their homes preparing the iftar meal. Otherwise, the death toll would have exceeded 1,000.
The fourth missile detonated above the stadium. Twenty or 25 young girls were playing volleyball. When they heard the first, second, and third missiles, they instinctively ran outside. But two or three of them were left behind.
[Text over the video: The Zionist regime’s missile attack on Shahid Naeimi Sports Hall in Lamerd County]
The girls ran through this door to get outside. But two of them were left behind: Helma and Elham, approximately 10 to 12 years old. They were trapped right here, struck by the fragments, and killed.
Film this area. There were 16 or 17 children playing on this soccer field. They also heard the explosion and began running toward the gate.
[Voice over the video: This spilled blood belongs to our fellow citizens, who were struck today by Israeli and American missiles.]
Three people were killed here. Their coach, Mahmoud Najafi, was lying here. Abdolmasour had fallen a little farther over there, and Ilia had fallen a little closer to this side.
Surviving boy: We came to the soccer field. My friend and I ran toward the shade canopy.
Reporter: “Why did you go over there?”
Surviving boy: Well, we were trying to get away. When our coach reached us, he quickly motioned for us to come outside. He said it was dangerous there. We came out. When I got here, the blast wave struck my hand, and I was moving farther back. Then a fragment struck me in the throat. I quickly went behind the water cooler. When the explosions stopped, I went over there to Abdolmasour.
Reporter: Where was he?
Surviving boy: He was lying here. I had been struck in the lower back. Then he kept telling me, “Help me, help me . . .”
Reporter: Where was Ilia?
Surviving boy: Ilia was lying here. A fragment had entered through his forehead and exited through the back of his head.
[Footage of Ilia’s body]
Behind this area is a school, an elementary school for girls. It was approximately five in the afternoon. The school was closed, and God showed mercy that the children were not inside. Otherwise, this would have become a second Minab.
Film this area. This is the school gate, and it is locked. This is the principal’s office. Their books have burned. This is the schoolyard. Behind it is the Basij building.
Come here and film that building over there. That is the Basij building. All right? That is an empty lot, and the Basij building is a two-story structure. This was not a military target at all. Had they intended to strike a military target, they should have hit that building itself directly with a missile and razed it to the ground, just as they strike police stations or military buildings in Tehran. That is not what they did here.
Nor was this an assassination attempt. The Basij commander here is only a lieutenant colonel. In other words, he is not a high-ranking military officer. Even if the aim had been an assassination, they would have needed to fire a missile directly at this building.
This type of missile, containing 180,000 fragments, was used to inflict a high number of casualties—not to assassinate anyone and not to strike a specific military target.
This is essentially an industrial town. It has no missile facilities, no underground sites, no naval units, no drones, and no unmanned naval systems. It is an ordinary county whose entire military presence consists of this Basij building. Not a single military personnel was killed here. In fact, not even one military personnel was injured. Only ordinary people were harmed.
Therefore, all 170 or 180 people who were injured and all 21 people who were killed were civilians. Every one of them was an ordinary person.
People here had no idea what had happened. They assumed that the missiles that struck Lamerd were like the missiles used in other cities. Then, a few weeks ago, two New York Times reporters published an investigation stating that a new type of prohibited weapon of mass killing had been used for the first time in Lamerd.
New York Times reporter: “I am Christiaan Triebert, and I work on visual investigations for The New York Times. In total, U.S. strikes killed at least 21 civilians in Lamerd. The reason for these casualties is that the attack on Lamerd was carried out using a new type of American weapon.”
The Iranian reporter continues: After the publication of this investigation, it became clear that the weapon in question was a missile known as the PrSM, or Precision Strike Missile. The New York Times report states that it is a short-range ballistic missile with an approximate range of 600 kilometers, designed to strike infantry or unarmored military vehicles, and manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
The Pentagon has also used newly developed weapons in previous wars. This type of operation is called a “combat evaluation.” In other words, they came to Lamerd and tested it. Within 35 seconds, 21 people were killed and approximately 180 were injured.
I obtained these reports from the forensic medicine authorities. [He reads from the reports.] Fragments in the knee, foot, lower leg, and side. Severed arteries, paralysis of the limbs, and blindness. They riddled people with holes.
War crimes are nothing new. There have been countless examples in the First World War, the Second World War, Vietnam, Algeria, and Bosnia. That is why the courts in The Hague have a section dedicated to prosecuting war crimes.
Since October 7, the situation has changed. In the past, it might have taken six months, a year, or even several years for journalists to discover a mass grave or obtain evidence of a war crime. Today, however, the first images and pieces of information may circulate around the world within hours. Something happens in Minab, and an hour later people around the world know about it. That is why they have mobilized their media empire. They say: wherever we commit a war crime, we will deny it from the outset and create doubt. We will say there was a Hamas tunnel here, that they were manufacturing missiles beneath the school, or that the Revolutionary Guards were behind the site in Lamerd. From the very beginning, they seek to obscure and deny the war crime itself, so that it reaches neither public opinion nor the courts in The Hague. In this way, they sever us from history.
Otherwise, the United States should not be able to host the World Cup today. You cannot tear young soccer players to pieces in the middle of a soccer field and then, three months later, host the largest soccer tournament in the world.
I am not even talking about the rest of the world. We ourselves have abandoned this. No one is raising their voice. We should be shouting about the Lamerd massacre. By God, we are failing to do what we should. Otherwise, Lamerd could have become an international case.
During the war, I spent 20 days traveling back and forth between Bandar Abbas and the surrounding areas. I passed through Lamerd twice, but no one came forward to ask what had happened here. Now three months have passed since the war, and not a single official from Tehran has come here to ask what happened. The governor of Fars Province has not come either. And then we expect the world to hear our voices?
We have no choice but to document this crime, narrate it, and shout about it. If I were one of the players on the national team, I would wear the name of Lamerd across my chest and walk onto the soccer field with it.
Content:
ماجرای جنگ۲ بهروایت جواد موگویی
روایت هجدهم:لامرد
Images: 
Additional Details
Captured Date
2026-06-09T14:19:30.000Z
Captured Post ID
340
Language
Persian
Incident