The Account of Makan Nassiri: The Boy in the Blue Sweater and a Single Shoe

A heart-wrenching account of Makan Nassiri, a seven-year-old first-grade student at Minab school and the only child whose body was never recovered. All that remained of him was a crumpled blue sweater and a single cream-colored sneaker, found 38 days after the tragedy, among trees a hundred meters from the blast site. His mother, Asiyeh, who spent 40 full days searching mortuaries and rubble for any sign of her son, now has only an empty grave in Minab's cemetery and a glass memorial box in the local mosque. She recalls: "Makan went to school that morning in his sports gear, he threw his blue sweater over his shoulders and put on his cream shoes; but he never made it to PE class." His father says Makan had a birthmark, the skin on his hand resembling fish scales; yet among the 168 identified martyrs, no body with these characteristics was found. Makan's case was closed as "Missing in Action"—an angel whose only legacy is a blue sweater in a glass box.