The video of the Iranian singer who sings “zombie” under the bombs

“My most bitter performance for my city, live under attack”: the Iranian singer Aydin Nazmi wrote it on social media, publishing a video in which he performs a poignant cover of “Zombie” of the Cranberries under the bombings of Israel on Tehran. Filmed on a hill of the Iranian city, the video – which became viral on the net – sees Nazmi reinterpreting, accompanying the guitar, the hit of the band once led by Dolores O’Riordan, linking the verses of the text to the sad situation in the Middle East: “But you, it’s Not Me, It’s Not My Family / In Your Head, in Your Head, they are FighTin ‘ / With Their Tanks and Their Bombs and Their Bomb and Their Guns / In Your Head, in Your Head, they are crryin’ “, Sing Nazmi, while the noises of the terrible bombings on Tehran are heard in the background.

Dolores O’Riordan, who died prematurely in 2018, at just 46 years old, composed “zombies” in 1993 in memory of two boys, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry, who were killed in an attack in Warrington, the United Kingdom, by the anger, or the Irish republican army, a terrorist paramilitary organization that in those years fought for the end of the British presence in the North and The reunification with the Republic of Ireland.

The song denounced the situation of violence in which in those years he paid northern Ireland. The song spoke of inhumanity and violence: the zombies of the text are those who do not see, addicted as living dead, unable to realize the endless violence. The song, contained in the album “No Need to Argue”, the second of the band led by Dolores O’Riordan, became the largest hit of the Cranberries.

“The war that kills children has no justification,” wrote the Iranian singer Aydin Nazmi. And again: “I thank my brother Fawad who has also been next to me in the rain of missiles”.