I pray for More Minutes of Life Says Iranian Nurse

On the morning of March 1st, as the shockwave from the US-Israeli bombing tore through a military compound near Tehran’s Khatam al-Anbia Hospital, glass exploded, ceilings crashed down in clouds of dust, and terrified patients fled screaming through smoke-filled corridors.

On the fifth floor, in the neonatal ward, three newborns – barely hours old – lay still in their bassinets, unaware that the world outside had just broken open.

Neda Salimi did not run for herself. All she thought at that moment was the safety of newborns.

The neonatal nurse, sitting beside the infants and writing reports only moments before the blast, heard the explosion – and moved in less than three seconds – not toward the exit door, but toward the smallest heartbeat in the room.

“There was no time to think,” she told Press TV Website. “In those moments, only one thought existed in my mind: we had to get the babies somewhere safe.”

Security camera footage – later viewed millions of times through social media platforms worldwide – captured only seven seconds of what happened next.

She appears as a hero while saving the lives of innocent children and civilians.