A Mother’s Courage. A Love That Survived the Fire.
She left to protect her daughter.
He made sure she’d never see her again.
In 2011, Somayeh Mehri made a choice that takes unimaginable courage. She walked away — not with a perfect plan, not with protection — but with a mother’s instinct to save her little girl, Rana.

The threat she received was not empty. One night, acid was thrown at a sleeping mother and her three-year-old child. An attack meant not just to hurt — but to erase.
Somayeh lost her sight completely.
Rana lost part of hers.
For a moment, it seemed like cruelty had won.
But then the world saw something else.
A photograph — a bandaged mother kissing her wounded daughter — spread across continents. Not because of horror. But because of love. A love that refused to burn away.

Their village stood with them. Her father sold everything for treatment. Strangers became protectors. Voices rose demanding justice, reform, and protection for women who choose safety over fear.
Their pain became testimony.
Their survival became resistance.
Because even when darkness reaches its furthest edge —
Love still leaves light behind.