‘My heart is going to bleed,’ says man who lost daughter, granddaughter in plane crash

Habib Haghjoo/The Canadian PressThe bodies of Sahar Haghjoo, 37, and her eight-year-old daughter, Elsa Jadidi, will land in Toronto on Saturday, Haghjoo said of his daughter and granddaughter who were on the Ukrainian flight that was shot down by Iran forces earlier this month.

Time has stopped for Habib Haghjoo since the plane crashed on Jan. 8. He can’t escape thoughts of his “girls,” as he calls them. The only reprieve comes at the pool of the local Y, where he swims 500 metres every day.“I don’t say they did, I say they do,” he said. “I want to believe they are with me, but are just far away.”Habib Haghjoo and his wife left Iran in 1987 and moved to Ireland where he began working as a computer programmer.

So he applied for a visa and two years, in 1991, they moved to Toronto. Canada was in the middle of a recession that year, and Habib Haghjoo had thought he made a mistake. But his wife implored him to stay.That’s where Sahar met and became friends with Mina Mozaffarian, who is the principal of Wali ul Asr, an Islamic school in east Toronto that Elsa attended.“I’m still in disbelief,” Mozaffarian said. “She was incredibly bright … She was one of our best readers.

A few months ago, Elsa drew a picture of heaven. After she died, a photo of the artwork began making the rounds at school.It shows a beaming Elsa holding a large white poster with the words, in letters the colours of the rainbow, “Life in Heavin.” The federal government has been good to Habib Haghjoo, he said, with Global Affairs calling daily with updates on their efforts to repatriate the remains of “his girls.”

It’s not a crash idiots, the Islamic Republic of Iran SHOT IT DOWN!!!! Why is the Globe working for Iran State TV trying to smooth the murder of 167 people over? BIZARRE....

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