The 22Year old artist, who was called a girl with a bright smile,

Sara Jodat was only 22 years old. A photography student at Pars University of Art and Architecture in Tehran, she balanced her days between classes and shifts at a well-known café in the city. Her coworkers remember her as “the girl with the bright smile” — warm, kind, always laughing, always polite. She wasn’t just working for money — she had dreams, and she was working toward them.

 On Sunday, June 15th, 2025, Sara was in Narmak, East Tehran, with her father Dariush — a bank employee. It was an ordinary evening. Then came the missiles. The Israeli airstrike hit their neighborhood without warning. Both Sara and her father were killed on the spot.

 Her life was full of movement. Between university projects and busy café hours, Sara was carving her own path in the world — not through privilege, but through perseverance. A classmate. A daughter. A friend. A young woman who loved life, who had goals, who never let her youth be an excuse for passivity.  According to Hammihan Media Group Her professor at university, Amir Abedi — a well-known photographer — remembered her clearly:

“She took one semester of photography with me. She was quiet, focused. I never imagined one of my students — someone just starting her life — would become a casualty of war.”

Their loss was not just felt at home. When news spread, friends flooded social media with memories of Sara — her laugh, her determination, her gentle presence. Customers of the café she worked at came forward, too. One recalled, “She always greeted us with a smile. It’s hard to believe she’s gone.” Her surviving sibling, wounded in the blast, said in an interview: “I blacked out mid-dinner. When I woke up, my family had been torn apart by war.”