Hamed Esmailiyon protests naming a car after his daughter in Iran
Hamed Esmailiyon, spokesman for the Association of Families of the Victims of Flight PS752, protested the naming of Iran Khodro Company's new product as "Reira".
Mr. Esmailiyon, who lost his wife and daughter in the incident of the Revolutionary Guards firing missiles at a Ukrainian passenger plane, tweeted: "Names and words belong to the people, and names and words become vulgar and shameful in the hands of dictators."
Stating that "in Iran, they are building a car called Ray, which will be unveiled by the Minister of Industry, Judge of Death," he said: "The choice of names must be as random as shooting at an airplane, and the goddess of the greenery of the forests of Mazandaran and that little girl who should have finished sixth grade today have all been destroyed by chance."
Referring to the removal of the name "Reira" from the civil registration list a year after his daughter's birth, the Ismailis emphasized: "Suddenly they become interested in this name and name their death chariots Rayra."
Rayra Esmailian and her mother Parisa Eghbalian were two of the 176 passengers on Flight PS 752 who lost their lives when the IRGC fired missiles at a Ukrainian international airliner over Tehran on January 8, 2019.
