\nAt 4 p.m., he went to the gym. At 6 p.m., he went to the barber, as he often did, to freshen up. Afterward, he drove to Azad Mall in Zarrinshahr. Around 7 p.m., he ate a sandwich there until he received a phone call and left for Fooladshahr.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nAt approximately 9:30 p.m., his family said, Rasoul was struck by a bullet and collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\nSeveral bystanders picked him up, placed him in a car, and rushed him to the Mehr-o-Mani Clinic in the Maskan-e-Mehr district in an attempt to revive him. But, according to his family, he had already died.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nHis body was later transferred to the Shafa Clinic. The family said intelligence services removed it from there on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nFor a week, his relatives searched for him.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nThe authorities, they said, never accepted responsibility for his death. Only after days of agonizing searching did the family find him at the forensic medical center in Gavart, Isfahan.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cWe have neither received nor accepted any financial compensation,\u201d the family told the Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\nZiaei family finds no peace after Rasoul’s killing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nEven after burying him, they said, there has been no peace.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cWe live in constant fear that his gravestone will be destroyed,\u201d the family said. \u201cBecause there is absolutely no sense of security, we remain in a state of continual anxiety. Justice has become meaningless in today\u2019s Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nThe family also made grave allegations about the condition in which Rasoul\u2019s body was returned to them.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cI want the world to know what they did to Rasoul and to all the others like him,\u201d the family said. \u201cI want the world to know the condition in which they returned Rasoul to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nAccording to the family, Rasoul\u2019s body was returned with only one eye, had been cut open, and his organs had been removed. They said that in videos and photographs taken immediately after he was shot, both of his eyes appeared intact.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nBut after intelligence services seized his body from the Shafa Clinic in Fooladshahr, the family alleged, his corpse was desecrated.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cThey did not even stop at desecrating his corpse,\u201d the family said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nThe Post<\/em> is reporting the family\u2019s account as testimony provided by relatives and has not independently verified the allegations regarding the treatment of Rasoul\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nThe family said one of the most painful parts of the tragedy is that Rasoul\u2019s parents do not know the full details of what they allege was done to him.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cThe hardest and most painful part of this tragedy is that his parents – and in fact no one except his siblings – know this terrible truth,\u201d the family said. \u201cIf my mother were ever to learn what was done to him, she would take her own life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nBut the family also wants Rasoul remembered as he lived, not only as he died.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n
Rasoul lived life full of laughter, warmth<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nThey described a younger brother who filled family gatherings with laughter, mischief, and warmth.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nWhenever the family gathered, Rasoul would jokingly put on his mother\u2019s clothes, imitate her voice, and make everyone laugh. When tea was poured, he would playfully stick his finger into a cup so that no one else would want to drink it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nAs a child, they said, he tried to avoid homework because all he wanted to do was play.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nAt night, he would simply go to bed and tell his siblings: \u201cYou have to do my homework.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nBecause he was the youngest brother, and so loved, they would imitate his handwriting and complete the schoolwork for him.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nFor his family, those memories now exist alongside the unanswered questions of his final hours: where he was taken, what happened to his body, who gave the orders, and why his relatives were left searching for him for a week.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nTheir message to the international community is simple.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cPlease help us,\u201d the family said. \u201cThese are the very people who speak of divine justice and of God – yet look at what they are doing to their own young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nEven if Rasoul and the others killed can never return, they said, the world still has a responsibility to those who remain.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\u201cAt least save the future of the young people who remain,\u201d the family said, \u201cwhose lives are in immediate danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n