When the Silence Broke: Fahimeh’s Awakening in a World Without Them

After 112 days in a coma, she opened her eyes — only to discover her parents had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Tehran.

For more than three months, she lay still — caught between life and death, breath and silence.

Her name is Fahimeh Hashemitabar, and the world she once knew vanished while she slept.

Her father, Dr. Seyed Asghar Hashemitabar, a senior nuclear scientist.

Her mother, Tahereh Taheri, the light of their home.

They were sitting together in their living room in Tehran on a quiet June night when an Israeli missile struck.

The house was reduced to rubble.

They were killed instantly.

Fahimeh, their only child, was found alive — barely.

She suffered severe trauma to her brain and spine. Her body broken. Her voice gone. Her future held in question.

And so began 112 days of coma, of machines breathing in rhythm where memory could not reach.

Then — she awoke.

But no joy followed that miracle.

No embraces. No familiar smiles.

Only confusion… and absence.

To protect her fragile state, doctors told her her parents were in another hospital, recovering.

But she knew something wasn’t right.

She searched.

And she found their names — listed among the martyrs.

That’s how she learned the truth.

Now, Fahimeh cannot walk. She cannot speak. She is fed through a tube.

Her wedding, once planned for September, is a shadow of another life.

And yet, she remains.

Alive. Aware. Grieving. Remembering.

She communicates through spelled-out letters. Her greatest wish:

“To meet the Leader and ask for his prayers.”

Of her parents, she says:

“They longed for martyrdom. They have achieved it.”

But what of the one left behind?

This was not a battlefield.

This was not a war zone.

This was a home.

A scientist, a wife, a daughter — turned into targets.

And now, in a sterile hospital room in Tehran, a young woman breathes the aftermath.

She is not a number.

Not collateral damage.

She is Fahimeh.

And when the silence broke, her first sound was grief.

Reference: PressTv