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Every day, we find new victims. Every day, relatives write to us. Every day, more relatives and friends are waiting to see the cases of their loved ones published inOmid, our online memorial. 

This year, on the 30^th anniversary of the April 18, 1983 bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF)  located and reached out to family members of many of the 63 victims of the April 1983 terror attack – one of several bombings carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran to further its foreign policy agenda.

Over the last year, ABF researchers worked tirelessly to ensure that the victims of this bombing, regardless of their nationality, were given therecognition and remembrance they deserve.

Mary Metni, born to an Orthodox Christian family in Egypt in 1914, “was rather jolly and witty, and she taught her children to take life with irony and make the best of it.” She worked at the American Embassy for more than 30 years and retired in 1979. But in 1983, she was re-employed on a short-term contract and, tragically, she was at the Embassy the day of the bombing.

Read more about Mary Metni and other bombings’ victims in Omid, oursearchable, online memorial containing more than 16,300 cases of executions by Iranian government forces and their agents. 

 Omid’s goal is to ensure that, in the absence of justice, no victim is ever forgotten.

Too often, survivors live with the trauma and the pain of their loss in silence. For too many, there is no justice or public attempt to establish the truth and acknowledge their suffering. Their contemporaries forget, and younger generations never learn of their ordeal.

Your support will help us document thousands of forgotten cases. Building Omid requires the painstaking research of more than three decades of newspaper archives and other sources; hours of interviews with witnesses; verifying and processing thousands of stories provided to us by friends and relatives; underlining human rights violations; and drafting the stories in Farsi and English.

Omid gives a voice to the silenced. Your tax-deductible donation will help us make every voice heard.