Youngest Kerman martyr: 2-year-old girl with pink coat and heart-shaped earrings

Press TV Website Staff

Of the 91 people martyred in Wednesday’s terror attacks in southeastern Iran’s Kerman city, the hometown of top anti-terror commander Martyr Gen. Qassem Soleimani, was a two-year-old girl.

The tender soul had joined tens of thousands of people to commemorate the fourth martyrdom anniversary of the former Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander.

Wearing a pink-colored jacket and heart-shaped earrings, which helped her family members identify her torn-into-pieces body, Reyhane Soltani Nejad was too little to understand what happened.

Her Artificial Intelligence-generated images have been doing rounds on social media.

Daesh terrorist group’s Khorasan chapter claimed responsibility for the two suicide bombings that ripped through the mountainous city, marking the deadliest terrorist incident in many decades.

However, experts believe the attacks bear the hallmark of the Israeli regime.

On Friday, ahead of the funeral for the Kerman terrorist attack martyrs, a woman was spotted in the crowd carrying her little daughter with clothes that resembled those of Reyhane.

The video of the girl was shared widely online and showed the kind of love people have for martyrs.

In Tehran, the municipality put up banners and billboards with the caption: “A two-year-old girl with a pink jacket and heart-shaped earrings.”

Netizens also took to social media to pay tribute to the little girl and other martyrs and condemned the ghastly attacks against people who had gathered to mourn their beloved commander.

Many trending hashtags have been dedicated to the youngest Kerman martyr on X and Instagaram.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, university lecturer and author Muhammad Shojaee cited a verse from the Holy Quran, which says – for which crime was she killed?

“An adorable doll, oh excuse me, a nearly two-year-old innocent toddler, with a pink jacket and heart-shaped earrings, who became a victim of the recent terrorist act in Kerman, Iran,” he wrote.

“She was two years old, with a pink jacket and heart-shaped earrings. Now you are in heaven,” wrote an X user, sharing Artificial intelligence-generated photos of little Reyhane.

“A girl with a pink jacket and heart-shaped earrings now becomes the flower of heaven,” wrote another X user with Reyhane’s Artificial Intelligence-generated image.

One X user in a poetic post paid an emotional tribute to the little martyr Reyhane.

“I came to write it could have been my own girl. I ate my words, and asked myself, isn't she my own girl? You are dear Rehane, you are my little girl, our little girl, dear Iranian girl,” she wrote.

A user, sharing the image of Reyhane’s shroud and coffin, said the blessed name of the youngest martyr of Kerman “will be a key to the destruction of arrogant powers.”

In one of the videos shared online, people were seen lifting her shrouded lifeless body high in the air, and reciting supplications amid tears and sobs.

Iran has vowed to identify and punish the perpetrators of the dastardly crime, which also left at least 284 people injured, most of them still battling for their lives in various hospitals.

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