Hamed Mirzaei lost 12 members of his family in an attack on a residential building in Tehran.
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Mirzaei → lose → Tehran
Among those killed was his wife, 26-year-old Mohadeseh.
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wife → kill → those
The young couple had been planning to start a family.
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couple → plan → family
He describes how the United States-Israeli attack on his home on March 9, 2026, changed his life in this first-person account, shared with Al Jazeera:
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attack → describe → Jazeera
calculations as US escalation looms: Trust, midterms, Hormuz
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escalation → loom → ?
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war → look → 47bn
What that means
- list 4 of 4What we know of Vance’s letter to Rezaei, as Trump warns Gulf to ‘prepare’
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“Seven months have passed since the bombing.
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months → pass → bombing
Even now, on many days, when I come to my senses, I find myself back at my destroyed home, searching for my loved ones.
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I → come → ones
“My grandfather and my father’s uncle built the house that was hit.
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that → build → house
They divided its apartments among their children.
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They → divide → children
A year ago, when I got married, my wife and I moved into one of the apartments in the same building.
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wife → marry → building
We were just beginning to prepare for a child.
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We → begin → child
Then the bombing happened.
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bombing → happen → ?
At about 1:00 in the afternoon, I left home to check in at work.
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I → leave → work
At 2:30 pm, my wife messaged me, asking me to buy her some headache medicine on my way back.
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wife → message → way
I called her to ask which medicine she wanted, but her phone was busy.
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phone → call → medicine
We were expecting guests at home, so I called our guest’s phone.
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I → expect → phone
I hung up, intending to call my wife again.
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I → hang → wife
“I was five minutes from home when I suddenly heard a whistling sound.
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I → hear → sound
The first missile had just struck.
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missile → strike → ?
“The ground shook beneath my feet from the force of the explosion.
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ground → shake → explosion
With my phone still in my hand, I called my wife again, but her phone was unreachable.
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phone → call → wife
I began calling my family members, my grandfather, my father, my mother.
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I → begin → members
“Even so, I thought our home had not been hit.
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home → think → ?
I kept telling myself it was impossible that they had struck our house.
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they → keep → house
I thought perhaps a missile had hit somewhere else in our neighbourhood.
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missile → think → neighbourhood
In those moments, all I wanted was to get home and see that the house was still standing.
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house → want → moments
“In those same minutes, five more missiles struck our home.
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missiles → strike → home
“When I arrived, I saw that everyone in the neighbourhood had come out of their homes, but I still couldn’t bring myself to step into the street.
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I → arrive → street
It never even crossed my mind that those missiles could have hit our house.
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missiles → cross → house
But they had.
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they → have → ?
Even from a distance, it was clear that all that remained of the house was its skeleton.
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that → remain → house
“When I reached it, everything was burning.
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everything → reach → it
All I could think about was getting to the second floor and finding my wife, but the staircase was gone.
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staircase → think → wife
Several neighbours from the first floor were trapped beneath the rubble.
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neighbours → trap → rubble
The Red Crescent helped rescue them.
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Crescent → help → them
“I thought that if they kept searching, perhaps they would find my family alive somewhere beneath the debris, too.
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they → think → debris
But they didn’t.
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they → do → ?
No one was found that hour.
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one → find → ?
…and 33 more, not listed.
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