Soheila Zarfam
Tehran Times

Millions of Iranians flood the streets for Quds Day under US-Israeli bombardment, declaring they will not yield

The woman lost her life during one of multiple bombings carried out in central Tehran by the U.S. and Israel, as around three million Tehrani residents, according to unofficial estimates, marched through the capital’s streets. The woman’s identity was still unknown to the Iranian public at the time this report was written. But everyone had seen the flag she had been holding, drenched in blood, raised by another demonstrator and presented to the crowd after her death. A picture of the woman on the ground, with a man—probably her husband—crouching down and hugging her lifeless body, also circulated around the Internet.

This harrowing account of a U.S.-Israeli crime, however, did not make the Iranian people want to leave the streets that day and take shelter in their homes, which have also been coming under attack by the U.S. and Israel since February 28, the day the two regimes assassinated Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Now that his son, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, has been elected to continue his mission, people say they will march in the streets and chant slogans against America for as long as their Leader needs them to.

Soheila Zarfam
Tehran Times

How did Israel's aggression unite Iranians more than ever?

Several funerals were being held there. There were young, old, male, and female bodies wrapped in the white fabrics Muslims use to bury the dead. The atmosphere was eerie. There were many people crying and weeping, but there were also some who looked firm despite the grief showing on their faces.

I spoke to one of the mourners, a woman who was burying her brother. She was wearing a black Iranian chador. Next to her were people who looked nothing like her in attire; they wore loose-fitting clothes and hijabs. "I lost my brother during an Israeli attack. He was a soldier completing his military service," the woman explained. Zahra, as she named herself, said she comes from a family that has sacrificed many of its members for the country. "Two of my uncles were martyred during the Iran-Iraq war. My dad was also a soldier during that war. We were used to hearing and talking about martyrs, but we never thought we would be speaking about my 23-year-old brother in the same manner."