Hamed Saeedi

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On the day of the attack, Hamed Saeedi, a 48-year-old postal worker from Kurdistan, was waiting in the office for other teams to arrive from nearby villages and towns so he could register the parcels and send them toward Bijar and Sanandaj. Mr. Saeedi, a postman from Divandarreh, had updated the information of a package on the website just five minutes before the missile strike on March 6. These updates can be tracked using the parcel’s tracking code to see where it had been. Five minutes later, at 10:23, three missiles were fired at Divandarreh, one of which landed on the post office like a letter, turning the building into a rough heap of rubble.

Sana, Mr. Saeedi’s daughter, shows a clock whose hands stopped at the time of the attack. She says, “My father’s martyrdom was marked by his Seiko watch, which ran on the pulse of his wrist; the watch stopped forever at 10:23 on March 6.” Three days earlier, the people of Divandarreh had heard the sound of war for the first time. That day, the same nearby military building adjacent to the post office was attacked, but in the second strike, in which Mr. Saeedi lost his life, the missile hit the post office itself.

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