For days, Zahra Ma’boudi Zarnagh’s family searched for their 17 year old daughter. At one point, someone contacted them through Zahra’s own phone and told them: She’s alive. Her family went looking for her. Then they were told something completely different: Go look for your daughter among the hundreds of lifeless bodies. They eventually found Zahra in the morgue at Behesht-e Sakineh. Zahra had been shot with live ammunition in Fardis on January 9, the bullet striking her chest/heart, and that she received no medical treatment before her body was taken away. Her family found her five days later. She schoolgirl from Tabriz who was living in Fardis, Karaj. Zahra studied experimental sciences and was preparing for the Konkur. She wanted to become a doctor. She boxed. She wanted to help working children and care for animals. Her father had died from cancer around three years earlier. Her mother was sick, Zahra had become one of the people her mother depended on most. Her mother had undergone heart surgery only three days before Zahra was killed. She had already lost her dad. Her mum was recovering from heart surgery. And Zahra was supposed to be preparing for university and figuring out how to become the doctor she dreamed of being. Instead, her family was searching morgues for her. After she was shot, people were prevented from helping her and she was taken away. Witnesses say that she was dragged by her hair and that jewellery she had been wearing was taken. Her family was not allowed to bury her in Karaj. They had to take their 17 year old daughter back to Tabriz. Zahra was buried there, beside her father. The burial was small and heavily restricted, in winter weather. Even after she was buried, they say pressure continued around memorials and her birthday. There was so much life packed into this girl already. Her name was Zahra Ma’boudi Zarnagh. She was 17 years old. Please don’t let her become another photograph people scroll past. #IranWar‌ #جاویدشاه #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran