A new mural entitled ‘Children are not targets’ It was revealed at its Railway Station Tehran. The work, designed by artists known in Iran, depicts her children Minab, Killed during the bombing at their school on the first day of the war, dressed in the jerseys of Iran's national football team, attempting to convey through a global visual language the message of their loss and unfulfilled dreams.
The central idea of mural is based on the presentation of children as members of a football team. The creators chose football - in the midst of Mundial which is in progress in the United States, Mexico and Canada, as a global means of communication and as a symbol of the dreams, development and future that every child is entitled to have.
Children Are Not Targets: The Role of Martyd Children of Minab in the Mural at Tehran's Railway Station
The latest Mural at Tehran's Railway Station, titled "Children Are Not Targets," was unveiled with designs by Mohaddeseh Alishah and Mahya Jafari. This artwork detectives the... pic.twitter. com/ApeDruNwa1— Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) June 17, 2026
The aim of the project, as local authorities point out, is "to allow the public to associate with the personal identity, ambitions and life of every child lost, instead of facing tragedy only through numbers and statistics".
According to the creators, these children should be on the courts, in school and in a course of evolution and creation rather than among the victims of the war.
The slogan "Children are not targets“, which dominates mural painting, artistically highlights the opposition between the innocent world of childhood and the violence of war.