Iranian state television, Sahar Emami, delivered a live broadcast in Tehran this week when it was interrupted by loud booms.
Shocked viewers – who have followed precisely state media to have news about the War between Israel and Iran – saw the room filled with smoke, dust and rubble.
“The sound you have just heard is the sound of the attacker who attacks our home country, and the sound of the attacker who tries to suppress legality and truth,” said Emami and wagged with the index finger when the cameras rolled on.
“What you have just seen … this smoke -filled studio of the news network,” she continued, before she was forced to give up her seat when a second explosion rocked the building.
Government numbers and state media quickly confiscated the determination of Emami to further lower, which she described as an immediate symbol of resistance as “Iranian lion”.
Minutes after the second explosion, Emami reappeared from another studio, published online themselves as videos, showed fire and smoke that rose from the glass center of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Group. Within a few hours, her image was plastered on social media and presented in a large murals in the Iranian capital.
president Masoud Pezeshkian She called her a “symbol of resilience, durability and unyondly spirit”. Fatemeh Mohajerani, government spokesman, compared the “brave daughter of Iran” to Gordafarid, a legendary Persian heroine and one of the first Iranian warriors, as in Shahnameh, a 1000-year-old epic poem of the Persian writer Ferdowsi.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said: “Last night, in the middle of the wild attack of the Zionist regime … a brave Iranian woman stood in front of the camera – fearless, steadfast and full of love (her) home.” According to the IRNA news agency, he added: “She was the voice of Iran.”

According to the state media, a murals were unveiled less than 24 hours after the strike on the Vali-e-Square in the city center of Tehran, which is emami in the air with increased index fingers and was dressed in the black chador, which was worn by conservative women in Iran.
The murals used a verse of Ferdowsi about “a virgin in the battlefield”, another reference to Gordafaride. The references to pre -Islamic literature, which was often excluded by the Islamic Republic, were seen as an attempt to inspire nationalist feelings.
Mohajerani suggested that an courage in the journalism price should be named after Emami. Sporting stars joined the hurry to praise them, and the karate athlete Amir Mehdizadeh and the Sport -Shooter Javad Foroughi dedicate their gold medals from international competitions to the broadcaster.
The 40 -year -old Emami, who had a degree in agricultural engineering, came to Irib in 2008 and became known for the current matters of Pishkhan Khabar.
The conservative broadcasting group was criticized by reformist politicians and many Iranians because it serves as a mouthpiece for the autocratic state, which even understates the freedom of freedom of expression. In his reporting on international and domestic developments such as protests, which is considered a highly selective in 2022 by Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was arrested by the notorious moral police of Iran.
But even some Iranians who criticize the regime said they were inspired by Emami’s example.
Mansoweh, 45, a reform -oriented critic of the Islamic Republic in Tehran, said: “When I saw this woman on TV, I was so ashamed of myself. What am I afraid? I said to myself that I have to stay where I am and my city has to defend.”

However, others remained skeptical. “For me it looked more like a performance. There had been an order for evacuation and it seemed to be mentally prepared,” said Sara, 58, a nurse, also in the capital.
“She knew that she would be caught as a heroine if she could keep her serenity for a few moments on live television … and the Islamic Republic uses them to serve her own propaganda purposes.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Has asked the Iranians to face their freedom against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime since Israel started his large -scale offensive against Iranian goals on Friday, which caused Iran to return rockets and drone fire. Despite the sporadic demonstrations in recent years, there has been little sign that the war triggers against government regulatory protests.
On Tuesday, Irib published a video that shows the damage to the building, including the fourth floor – the location of the newsroom and the live studio, in which Emami presented at the time of the attack. State television once again showed the pictures of the building on fire and said that wind had lit the embers from the strike again on Monday.
Israel grabbed the building about an hour after the output of one Evacuation order For Tehran’s district 3, in which the Irib headquarters are located together with the police headquarters and three hospitals.
Three people were killed in the strike, including Nima Rajabpour, News Producer, and Masoumeh Azimi, an employee of the office. The committee to protect journalists said that it was “horrified” by the attack on state television.
Emami told the audience that the attack “the freedom of speech, the truth and the voices of women, men and children who were martined in the past few days.