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A school reduced to flames, an Iranian musician with his kamancheh, and the memories of thousands of lessons.
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00:03I don't know why this happened to a music school.
00:07You saw this Iranian musician playing on the ruins of his own music school after it was destroyed in US
00:12-Israeli strikes.
00:16Standing in front of that same building in Tehran, Hamid Reza Afarideh showed more what he was left with now.
00:23The missile hit a music school. It was completely destroyed.
00:28He said he and his wife built the Honiak Music Academy, a space filled with 250 students and 22 teachers.
00:35But when the war began, he had to close it to protect his students.
00:38The conflict destroyed neighborhoods and forced more than 3.2 million people from their homes.
00:54My wife and I have worked so hard to build this place over many years. It was destroyed overnight.
01:01He said that when he returned, he found the school destroyed, reduced to flames and ashes.
01:06In those ruins, he played the Kamanche one final time, wanting the sound to hold on to the happy moments
01:12that had once filled the space.
01:20Asked whether the two-week ceasefire announced on April 7 changes anything for those on the ground,
01:25he told Moore that it could bring some peace, but there is still fear and uncertainty about what comes next.
01:33I don't know how this war will end for us or for our generation. All it has brought is destruction.
01:50Loan.
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