This page keeps the memory of friends and acquaintances who lost their lives together: friends who went into the street together, neighbours, classmates and colleagues who were killed on the same day or in the same city. To date there are only 4 names on this page, two pairs from two cities: two men from Bukan in Aban 1401, and two women from Rasht in Dey 1404. All four were killed in protests. The earliest date on this page is 25 Aban 1401 and the latest 19 Dey 1404.
This small number does not mean that few friends lost their lives together. We record a tie of friendship only when a source has explicitly stated it, and in most reports such details do not appear. The ages of these four people are between 28 and 52 years, with a median of 47 years; 2 of them are women and none of them was under 18 years of age. Two are from West Azerbaijan and two from Gilan.
Azar and Leila, Rasht
Azar Nasirpour, 52 years old, and Leila Yaghoubi, 47 years old, were close friends. According to the source, Leila went with her close friend Azar from Lasht-e Nesha to Rasht, and both were shot on Saadi Street, a few minutes apart. That day was 18 Dey 1404.
Leila was the mother of two daughters aged 20 and 7 and lived in Lasht-e Nesha. The source says she was a supporter of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and used to say: why should the young sacrifice their lives so that we can live? This sentence of hers remains: “We must be their shield against harm in the streets.” Her body reached the family in the early hours of 19 Dey with the help of hospital staff.
Azar lived in Karaj and had two children, and in the days before the protests she had come to Rasht to visit her family. Her friends say “her spirit was cheerful, even when she was tired, even when the world did not go the way she wished.” A bullet hit her in the leg and tore her main artery; at Golsar Hospital in Rasht they tried to resuscitate her, but she lost her life around four in the morning of 19 Dey. The source writes: “Leila Yaghoubi and Azar Nasirpour rest side by side in the cemetery of ‘Lasht-e Nesha’.”
Shahriar and Mohammad, Bukan
Shahriar Mohammadi and Mohammad Hassanzadeh were both 28 years old and from Bukan, and were killed in Aban 1401. Shahriar had studied architecture at the Islamic Azad University of Bukan but left his studies because of his family's poverty and worked with his car. He had practised a martial art and held a qualification in it. On 27 Aban 1401 three vehicles chased him, and he was killed by a burst of gunfire in a dead-end alley. This sentence of his remains: “We are Iranian and we will remain Iranian, and hail to the honour of the whole country of Iran!”
Mohammad Hassanzadeh, according to the source, was killed in the night-time protests in Bukan by knife blows to his heart. These words of his have been quoted: “In the past, if we wanted to say that someone was very much a man, that he had great honour and conscience, we used the word man. Now, a man who wants to be very much a man has to be very much a woman.”
About this list
This page is not complete and may be the most incomplete of all pages. Undoubtedly many friends, classmates and colleagues lost their lives together whose ties have not appeared in any source. The names on this page come from several sources, including Persian Wikipedia, Iran International, the Iran Human Rights Society, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, each of which has reported 2 names. If you know that two people in our list were friends, classmates or colleagues, or have a memory of Azar, Leila, Shahriar or Mohammad, share it with us.