Tehran and several other cities have come under repeated US and Israeli airstrikes for more than three weeks, with the human cost rising by the day.
Many civilian stories may never fully come to light. Still, despite the destruction and a widespread internet blackout, some details are beginning to emerge.
According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, Parastesh Dahagain was killed while working at her pharmacy in Tehran after a nearby IT company was hit. A video shared online appears to show a memorial held in her honor, with her photographs surrounded by candles and flowers.
Her brother, Poorya, wrote on Instagram that she had simply been at work when her life was cut short.
In another case, 26 year old Berivan Molani, a lifestyle blogger and online clothing seller, had returned to Tehran just one day before her death because she missed home.
A friend, Razieh Janbaz, said Molani was inside her home when debris from an airstrike struck the building. Several neighbors were also reportedly killed in the same Israeli strike, which was said to have targeted Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib.
Footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent shows rescue teams working through the rubble as Molani’s mother, trapped beneath the debris, desperately asks whether her daughter is still alive.
