This page is dedicated to 74 people whose names appear in our list with a source and with the city of Eslamshahr in the province of Tehran. The list for Eslamshahr is almost entirely a list of protest: 73 people were killed in protests and 1 person lost their life in detention. No name of an executed person appears on this page. Its earliest date is 25 Aban 1398 and its latest 30 Dey 1404.
Two Abans and one Dey
The names from Eslamshahr come from three years. 11 names are from the year 1398: two names from 25 Aban, three names from 26 Aban and three names from 27 Aban 1398. From the year 1401 there are two names on this page. And 61 names from the year 1404, most of which go back to two days: 18 Dey 1404 with 21 names and 19 Dey 1404 with 15 names.
In this list Eslamshahr is a city of the young. The median of the ages is 23 years and the oldest person was 47 years old. 18 people were under 18 years of age; children, the youngest of whom, according to the data, was 2 years old. For only 2 people do the sources clearly state that they were women. Several of those killed, according to the sources, were originally from other cities and lived in Eslamshahr; from Kangavar, Divandarreh, Sarab, Bijar and elsewhere.
Those who helped others
Naser Shirazi Karameh, 44 years old, was a “fire and rescue” commander with 22 years of service in the Tehran fire department and the father of a 15-year-old daughter. That night he was in the street outside his work shift and, according to the source, was wounded in the side by a military round while helping a wounded person. He fell into a coma the next day and died that same evening. Ali Janani, 20 years old, a motorcycle courier, according to the source “was hit in the head and chest by bullets and killed when he wanted to rescue a wounded woman from among the municipal rubbish bins that had been used as a barricade.” In his last story he had written: “To win the best days of your life, you have to fight in the worst days of your life.”
Families in the street
Amirreza Mirzaei, 28 years old, who had an associate degree in management and was to work in the family's tabbakhi (offal restaurant) in his father's place after Nowruz, was at the protests with his mother and two sisters. According to the source, he took the family into a side alley, and when he put his head out to see whether the agents were following them, he was killed by a bullet to the head; “Amirreza fell to the ground in his sister's arms.” His family searched for his body for five days and nights.
Mehdi Shafiei, 41 years old, a construction worker, and his son Mani were both killed on 18 Dey in Eslamshahr. According to the source, “of their family of four only the mother and daughter remain.” The bodies of father and son were taken to the village of Chenar Sheikh in Asadabad, Hamedan. Saber Vafadar Chechaklou, 41 years old, a carpenter and the father of a young daughter, was wounded by a bullet in the thigh near a mosque and lost his life.
Children and young people
Arian Ghasemizadeh, a teenager from Kangavar who did wrestling and gymnastics and had just finished a hairdressing course, was wounded in the back by a military round on 19 Dey and died in hospital a few hours later. Arsalan Ghahremani, 27 years old, who had just finished his military service, was killed by two bullets to the heart and neck. Ayat Derakhshan, father of two children, died after a week in hospital from the infection of a bullet wound.
About the sources and the incompleteness of this list
These 74 names are not all of the victims from Eslamshahr; the real number is higher, and we record only a name for which we have a source. The largest share of the sources for this page is held by Iran International with 48 cases and HRANA / Human Rights Activists in Iran with 43 cases; followed by iranhrs.org with 27, Persian Wikipedia with 17 and iranintl.com with 13 cases. Amnesty International has also reported 8 cases. Every name has at least one source, but some only one, and sometimes the sources do not agree on age or day. For 16 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the victims from Eslamshahr, send us your memory or correction.