Overview
- Hamidreza Afarideh posted an Instagram video of himself playing the kamancheh on the rubble of the Huniak/Honiak Music Academy in Tehran, drawing tens of thousands of likes.
- He wrote that he wanted the last sound from the school to be music, not bombs or missiles, as he said goodbye to the space where he taught.
- The academy was reported hit by drones during joint U.S.–Israel attacks on Iran and had served about 250 students with 22 teachers and staff after he and his wife spent more than two years building it.
- Rights group HRANA reports more than 3,540 deaths since the campaign began, including 1,616 civilians and at least 244 children, and La Jornada reports over 3.2 million people displaced.
- A declared two‑week ceasefire has reduced the scale of recent strikes according to HRANA’s daily tallies, and prominent artists including Asghar Farhadi and Mark Ruffalo have condemned the destruction of schools and cultural centers.