Tehran — Parnia Abbasi, a 24-year-old Iranian poet and English teacher, was tragically killed along with her entire family in an Israeli airstrike on June 12, reported the Tehran Times.The missile struck the Orchideh Complex, a residential building in Tehran’s Sattarkhan neighborhood.
Abbasi died alongside her father, Parviz Abbasi, a retired educator; her mother, Masoumeh Shahriari, a former bank employee; and her younger brother, Pahram Abbasi, a university student. The strike, reportedly targeting nuclear scientist Dr. Abdulhamid Minouchehr who lived in the same building, has raised serious concerns about the civilian toll of ongoing Israeli military actions.
With at least 80 people, including 20 children, killed in Iran so far, the attack on Abbasi’s home has ignited fresh outrage.
Parnia Abbasi was celebrated as one of Iran’s most promising young poets. Her poem The Extinguished Star, featured in Vazn-e-Donya magazine, captured the fragile beauty of fleeting life and has since become a poignant symbol of her untimely death.
“You and I will come to an end
Somewhere
The most beautiful poem in the world
Falls quiet.”
A graduate in English Translation from Qazvin International University, Abbasi worked at Bank Melli and had deferred her Master’s admission in management to continue her career. Friends and colleagues remember her as “full of life and poetry,” a young woman who carried hope, creativity, and compassion in her every word.
Her death has sparked grief across Iran’s literary and cultural communities, mourning not just the loss of a rising poet but of yet another innocent life in the widening shadow of conflict.
