'There was blood everywhere': Survivors recount US strike on wedding in Iran

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Witnesses describe chaos and devastation as a family celebration instantly turned into a night of mourning Maryam and Ziaeddin were meant to spend the most memorable night of their lives surrounded by their loved ones. They had no idea that their wedding would become the darkest moment of their lives and one of the most painful nights of the war for Iranians. On the evening of Tuesday 1 September, around 350 people gathered in Kuhestak, in Sirik county, on the east coast of Iran’s Hormozgan prov