The Recess That Will Never Return
In Memory of the Schoolchildren Martyred in the Recent Israeli Attack on Iran
Commentary | The Recess That Will Never Return
In Memory of the Schoolchildren Martyred in the Recent Israeli Attack on Iran
🖋️ Iranian Social Workers International | July 2025
Today, recess is silent. The schoolyard echoes with absence. Notebooks lie open, never to be written in again.
Twenty-two Iranian schoolchildren were tragically killed in the recent barbaric missile strikes by the Zionist regime — lives full of dreams, laughter, and limitless potential, now forever lost in smoke and rubble.
These innocent victims were:
Mohaddeseh Aghdasi, Seyed Mohammadreza Aghdasi, Marsana Bahrami, Amirali Amini, Mohammad Hossein Khaki, Motahareh Niyazmand, Fatemeh Niyazmand, Alireza Niyazmand, Zahra Bahmanabadi, Hanieh Bahmanabadi, Eima Zeynali, Mahya Nikzad, Soheil Katooli, Fatemeh Sadati Aramaki, Alireza Fallah, Parham Abbasi, Alisan Jabari, Amirali Chatr Anbarin, Sarvin Hamidian, Tara Hajmiri, Helena Gholami, and Matin Safaeian.
Children who will never again hear the school bell, never run through the halls, never see the seasons change through the classroom windows.
Attacks on Children Are Crimes Against Humanity
According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, 1989) — signed by nearly every country in the world — and under the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, any deliberate targeting of civilians, especially children, constitutes a grave war crime and a violation of human dignity.
These 22 children were not soldiers. They were students. Their only “crime” was being alive — in their homeland — on a day when missiles rained down from the sky.
A Classroom Full of Absence
This is not a tragedy for just 22 families.
This is a national mourning.
When a society loses its children, it doesn’t just grieve — it fractures. It bleeds at the root.
These children once dreamt of becoming doctors, artists, teachers, pilots.
But the world decided their dreams were dispensable.
And so, the blackboard stays blank. The books remain unopened.
What Should Responsible Media Do?
As a human-centered news platform, MadadkarNews believes in:
🔹 Being the voice of these silenced children.
🔹 Bearing witness and reporting the truth without compromise.
🔹 Refusing to normalize or forget the murder of innocence.
A media outlet that does not defend the rights of children is not neutral — it is complicit through silence.
Resilience in the Shadow of Child Martyrdom
Yes, war breaks more than buildings — it breaks spirits.
But this nation — wounded though it may be — will not surrender.
We believe in planting seeds of hope on scorched ground.
We believe that every tear must become a reason to educate, protect, and resist.
We believe that resilience begins with remembrance.
Final Words
The student martyrs of this tragedy were the children of all Iran.
To honor them is not only to grieve — it is to act:
To demand justice.
To amplify their stories.
To ensure this crime is neither repeated nor forgotten.
🕊️ For the children who will never hear the recess bell again — we will not be silent.
✍️ Iranian Social Workers International
July 1, 2025 – 21 Tir 1404 SH
