{"id":263651,"date":"2026-08-25T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263651\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:29:10","slug":"children-were-in-pieces-memories-still-raw-6-months-after-iran-school-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263651\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Children were in pieces\u2019: memories still raw 6 months after Iran school strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For months, Masoumeh Zakeri has endlessly replayed the last night she spent with her nine-year-old daughter before she was killed in a strike on her school during the opening hours of the US-Israel war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Motahreh excitedly talked about coming holidays, planned weddings and the clothes she wanted to buy. She had a Ramadan pre-fast meal shortly before dawn and then Zakeri tucked her into bed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI never saw her again. (That was) the last time,\u201d the 44-year-old mother told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Motahreh woke before her parents and took the bus to Shajareh Tayebeh school in Iran\u2019s southern city of Minab. Hours later, the attacks on Iran began and Zakeri received a call telling her to pick up her daughter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She did not make it in time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">By the time she arrived, the school had been struck, and Motahreh was among at least 155 people killed, most of them children \u2013 the deadliest strike yet reported by Iran.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inside the destroyed Shajareh Tayyebeh school. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7499a419-2da9-4389-914e-8e7995aa77f1_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Inside the destroyed Shajareh Tayyebeh school. Photo: AFP\"\/>Inside the destroyed Shajareh Tayyebeh school. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months, Masoumeh Zakeri has endlessly replayed the last night she spent with her nine-year-old daughter before she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[6455,72543,13447,89,72546,34,37,72548,72544,6792,72547,72545,69,6793,153],"class_list":["post-263651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alireza","tag-amnesty-international","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-fatemeh","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-javad-shahrjou","tag-masoumeh-zakeri","tag-minab","tag-motahreh","tag-shajareh-tayebeh-school","tag-tehran","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117154976283411851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}