He was only 21 years old, an athlete who packed his dreams into his sports bag so he could walk the streets of Isfahan in pursuit of freedom. Sasan Azadvar, a karate champion who had been arrested during the protests of December 2025 January 2026, joined the ranks of the martyrs of freedom at dawn today, April 30, 2026...

We had not heard his name. We had not seen his face. Yet he took to the streets for us and for Iran. At dawn today, Isfahan witnessed the flight of a hero whose name, even in captivity, sent shivers through the worshippers of darkness. Erfan Kiani — a young man who, far from media attention and away from the camera len...

She was only 23 years old—a medical student who had learned the very alphabet of saving lives. During the evening protests of January 12 in the streets of Qazvin, as she rushed to help the wounded, she herself became the target of hatred. Three bullets brought an end to the dreams of a young woman who had lived her hum...

He turned the pages of law books, searching for a path toward justice, unaware that his own name would become the bloodiest case of injustice in his city. Arman Haji-Yousefi; a 20-year-old young man who, during the evening protests of January 9, became eternal while his back was to the bullets and his face was toward f...

Ghazal Janqorban was only fifteen years old… A girl from Isfahan, with simple dreams and a pure heart that had barely begun to bloom. But on January 9, 2026, beside the Zayandeh Rud, while attending popular protests with her mother and father, she was shot by government forces. Three bullets were fired into her back....

Arshia, the same 18-year-old athlete full of energy who was the first smile of his home, and Ali, the hardworking student whose father carried him to the hospital with his own hands, hoping he might survive... but it seemed the sky had room for both of them. Losing a child is unbearable, but losing two friends who wit...

I had known Pouya Faragardi since the very first performance of the Nilper Orchestra in 2004, and until 2015 we worked together continuously in both the Nilper Orchestra and the Camerata Orchestra. Pouya wanted life — a life of music and smiles, of drinking tea and sharing everyday conversations backstage at Rudaki Hal...

Moein Basiri, forever remembered, was a 21-year-old supporter of Persepolis Football Club who was killed by direct fire from repressive forces during the Iranian people’s national uprising against the Islamic Republic. The emblems of Persepolis and Real Madrid are engraved on his gravestone. Moein was a psychology stud...

Masoud (Mehdi) Zatparvar (August 4, 1986 – January 8, 2026) was a world champion bodybuilder who was killed in Rasht by forces of the Islamic Republic during the 2025 Iranian uprising. Masoud Zatparvar was born in Rasht on August 4, 1986. He came from an entirely athletic family: his father, Majid Zatparvar, and his un...