Ali Asghar Forouzanfar was a second-grade student.
Yadollah Forouzanfar, the father of martyr Ali Asghar Forouzanfar, says that Ali Asghar was the first child of the family. His little sister, Ava, is now only three months old.
Ali Asghar was a very intelligent child. In educational assessment tests, the family had been told that both hemispheres of his brain were active. He was left-footed in football and right-handed in writing. Although he had never attended any formal sports training, he had remarkable skill. His respect for elders, especially his father and mother, was well known in the family, and his kind behavior had made those around him deeply attached to him.
Yadollah Forouzanfar explains the story behind his son’s name. Two years after their marriage, although no medical problem had been diagnosed, his wife had not become pregnant. The emotional pressure of that situation led them, at the advice of others, to visit a shrine. There, he appealed to Hazrat Ali Asghar and made a vow: if God granted them a son, they would name him Ali Asghar. Only twenty-five days later, they learned that his wife was pregnant. When they were told the child was a boy, they chose the name Ali Asghar for him.
On the day of the attack, he first thought the students had been taken out of the school before the explosion. But when the dust settled, it became clear that students, teachers, parents, and the school service driver were trapped under the rubble. Everything he touched was hot, and the smell of gunpowder had filled the air. People came one by one to help, and the rescue scene grew more crowded at that moment.
He himself took part in removing the rubble.
Ali Asghar’s body was found three days after the attack. First, his school bag was discovered. Later, at Hospital, his father identified him by seeing parts of his son’s body.
This little martyr was first buried together with the other martyrs. Thirty-eight days later, after another part of his body was identified, a second funeral procession was held for him.