You and I will come to an end
Somewhere
The most beautiful poem in the world Falls quiet.
Abbasi’s poem The Extinguished Star
Parnia Abbasi was a young Iranian poet, English teacher, and bank employee who was killed during the night between June 13 and 14, 2025, in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential complex in the western part of Tehran. She was about 24 years old and dreamed of pursuing a master’s degree in management after completing her bachelor’s in translation at Qazvin University.
Passionate about poetry since adolescence, she published her verses in literary magazines and often shared intimate, reflective texts. In one of her last poems, she wrote words that now sound hauntingly prophetic: “I burn, I fade, I become smoke…”
On the night of the attack, a missile struck the building where she lived with her family. Alongside Parnia, her younger brother and their parents were also killed. According to local and international sources, the target of the airstrike was a suspected nuclear scientist residing in the same complex, but the explosion caused a massive collapse, killing dozens of civilians, including many children.
