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I walk from Shuhada Square to Absardar intersection. The street is busy and the shops are open. Since a few days ago, when one of the houses in this area was hit, you can still see the broken glass of the shops and the house on the floor of the street. In this situation, reason says to close the shutters of your shop and start a business when the situation calms down, but the heart says that life continues under the missile attack. Don't people want pickles and olives under bombardment? Or is it that no one is supposed to go to the barber shop in the days leading up to Eid, so both the pickle shop and the barber shop are open!
As the young boy sweeps the remaining broken glass out of his shop with a broom, he greets his new customer, replacing the broken glass with plastic.
When I see the Iran sign on the wall, my heart trembles. What happened to this neighborhood is the same thing that has affected the entire homeland, claimed the lives of the children of Minab, dumped rubble on the heads of Tehranians, and destroyed the historical monuments of Isfahan. The aggressor doesn't care who belongs to which neighborhood, city, or village, he hits everyone. I walk down the street until the smell of bulldozers and dirt fills my ears and nose. I turn into a side alley until the dirt and dust no longer allow me to see in front of me. It takes a few seconds for me to see the image in front of me amidst this mass of dirt.
A young boy with a deep fryer in his hand emerges from the dust and a ruined house, behind him another person with a meat grinder, two people at a distance are holding a table and putting it in the back of a pickup truck, a house in a narrow alley is completely destroyed, the houses around and in front of it are also destroyed. A young boy wearing a robe and turban and holding a microphone from the sixties is telling the children behind a loudspeaker, "Move, we have a lot of work to do." I don't understand why he's saying this behind a loudspeaker when he can talk to the children like this and have his voice heard! Someone on the other side says: "Hajji, for God's sake, put that loudspeaker away." Hajji says as he holds the loudspeaker in front of his mouth, "I want to, but it won't turn off." Haji and the other children who are constantly coming out of the houses and going back in with tools are a group of jihadists who are helping the residents of the houses destroyed by Trump-sponsored bombs during these difficult days. All of them have been asking to come to Tehran since the beginning of the war, most of them young, and at most 24-25 years old. I soon learn that a group of about 10 students from Hamedan University have come to Tehran. Another 7-8 are students from the Qom Seminary. Mohammad Masih, one of the doctors, says with a shovel in his hand, “We are more than this, we are all students, each of us belongs to a city, and every morning we go to the area to clear the rubble from the areas that the enemy bombed last night.”
A few days ago, they were in Shahid Borujerdi Town, and a few days before that, Mirdamad, he says, the first people to see us are the ones who put up a guard, then when they see the children's efforts to help, they come to help themselves.
He says that the worst thing about these days of clearing rubble is seeing the dismembered bodies of people, sometimes their bodies thrown out several dozen meters from their houses. An old man is standing next to me, and when he hears our conversation, he takes out his phone, films Mohammad Masih, and asks questions about the children's jihadist activities like a journalist. War has turned everyone into a journalist, even those who are affected by the war like to create a role in the narrative field.
I climb the stairs one by one. I am standing in front of a house whose entrance is completely destroyed, this same house in front of the elevator, has American and Zionist flags painted on the floor, so that every time you use the elevator you have to perform a religious duty, to be free from the enemy. The jihadi kids are constantly moving things around, the landlord is busy with them. There is sadness on his face, but so is perseverance.
Another resident of the building comes over, I ask if any of the residents of the building were martyred?
_No, thank God
Who was martyred in the bombing?
Only one person, the caretaker of the same building that was hit by the bomb, was an Afghan. I think his body should be on the floor right now
One of the jihadi kids interrupts, _No, they took him away an hour ago.
The bulldozer is constantly working and digging, the school, which is located near the houses and only its windows are down, has become a shelter for the local people's belongings, everything that has no shelter anywhere is taken to the school yard. From the outside, the houses look like jumbled signs that show the entire house, a house where life flows from a pot on the gas and you can see the torn curtains and the ruins of the walls and the deep damage from the war. The young woman who owns the house is taking pictures, I say, you need female help to pack your things, we are here, just a few minutes ago when we wanted to take a picture of her house, her husband did not allow it, now the woman was apologizing to us that her husband does not like to talk because of the stress she has put on, I say it is okay, they have five children. It was 3 pm when the house next to them was bombed, I say are the children okay? She says it is a miracle that we are all alive.