Source
Captured Post Date:
2026-04-08
Translated Author:
IRNA News Agency
Author:
خبرگزاری جمهوری اسلامی
Translated Content:
The body of nine-year-old Mohammad Taha Jafari was not identified until 30 days after the day of the attack, and his parents waited until the eighth of Farvardin, hoping for any sign of their child. Hear the account of Masoud Jafari, the father of this martyred student, in this report.
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Translated Video Transcript:
“We found pieces of that missile. From the bodies, only fragments of flesh and hair remained, stuck to it. We took those out.”
This is the account of the father of Mohammad Taha Jafari, a nine-year-old student at Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab—a child whose body was not identified in the first days after the attack. Even after the debris removal operation ended, his father still held onto hope that some trace of Mohammad Taha would be found. He went to the site of the explosion himself and searched, but his efforts led nowhere.
Mohammad Taha’s mother—who now holds his school bag in her arms instead of her son—waited for thirty days after the incident, hoping for the return of her child’s body. His father recounts:
“It was around five o’clock when my brother-in-law brought the bag. He came in tears, apologizing, and said: ‘I’m sorry… this is all that has come back from Mohammad Taha—just his bag.’”
The boy’s parents went to the forensic office and morgues more than seven times, but among the bodies of the victims, they found no sign of their child. During all that time, the family was suspended between grief and hope—as if something was missing, something not yet found: Mohammad Taha was not there.
His father says that Mohammad Taha’s mother held onto the hope that perhaps he had not been at school at the moment of the explosion; or if he had been, maybe the shock and the noise had left him disoriented and someone had taken him away. At every moment, she waited for someone to arrive and say: “This is your child—this is Mohammad Taha.”
Every evening, they went—alongside the families of other victims of the school—to the Minab martyrs’ cemetery, mourning at the graves of the teachers and Mohammad Taha’s classmates. Yet still, there was no news of their son.
Finally, after one month, on the eighth of Farvardin, DNA test results confirmed that Mohammad Taha Jafari’s body had been identified. His father says:
“That morning when we went, it felt as if Mohammad Taha had just been martyred that very moment. Our grief returned to the very first day—as if he had just been pulled from the rubble. Mohammad Taha had come back, but there was not much left of him for us. We had gone to the morgue many times and had seen that body, but because the extent of the injuries, burns, and trauma was so severe, there was no way to identify him except through DNA testing. I had seen that body again and again, but I never once thought it was my Mohammad Taha.”
Content:
پیکر «محمدطاها جعفری» ۹ ساله، تا ۳۰ روز پس از روز حمله شناسایی نشد و پدر و مادر او تا هشتم فروردین چشمانتظار نشانی از فرزند خود بودند. روایت «مسعود جعفری» پدر این دانشآموز شهید را در این گزارش بشنوید.
Additional Details
Captured Date
2026-05-05T13:38:48.000Z
Captured Post ID
unknown
Language
Persian
Incident