The Iranian Assyrian Christian was martyred in the east of the Tigris River in March 1985 while taking part in Operation Badr, named after one of the most important battles in Islamic history.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei delivers a speech to a group of Iranian war veterans, who defended the homeland against the ex-Iraqi regime’s eight year war in the 1980s.

Koniko Yamamura, who changed her name to ‘Saba Babaei’ after converting to Islam, passed away at Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital in Tehran after a brief spell of illness.