Hamed Mirzaei lost 12 members of his family in an attack on a residential building in Tehran. Among those killed was his wife, 26-year-old Mohadeseh. The young couple had been planning to start a 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: “Seven months have passed since the 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. They divided its apartments among their children.
A year ago, when I got married, my wife and I moved into one of the apartments in the same building. We were just beginning to prepare for a child. We were young, with our whole lives ahead of us.
Then the bombing happened. At about 1:00 in the afternoon, I left home to check in at work. At 2:30 pm, my wife messaged me, asking me to buy her some headache medicine on my way back.
I called her to ask which medicine she wanted, but her phone was busy. We were expecting guests at home, so I called our guest’s phone. I hung up, intending to call my wife again.
The first missile had just struck. With my phone still in my hand, I called my wife again, but her phone was unreachable. I began calling my family members, my grandfather, my father, my mother.
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