Milad Hassanzadeh Aliabadiunder 18

میلاد حسن زاده علی آبادی

Also known as میلاد حسن‌زاده

17 years old · Tehran

8 January 2026 Killed during protests

Life

School student
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دانش‌آموز
He had set up his own online perfume sales business.
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برای خود کسب‌وکار آنلاین فروش عطر راه انداخته بود.
He had set up a business and had a perfume shop
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کسب‌وکاری به‌راه انداخته بود و عطرفروشی داشت

Mohammadreza Hassanzadeh, Milad's brother, who lives in Estonia
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محمدرضا حسن‌زاده، برادر میلاد، که ساکن کشور استونی است

Patriotic and freedom-loving
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ایران‌دوست و آزادی‌خواه
"I'm going.
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«دارم می‌رم.
If I am killed or even arrested, be happy, because I chose to live with honour and dignity.
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اگر کشته شدم یا حتی دستگیر شدم، خوشحال باشید، چون من انتخاب کردم با شرافت و عزت زندگی کنم.
If I am going to die, it is better to die as a martyr on the path of courage and honour, and if something happens to me, I want the news to explode like a bomb, so that I become a role model for the rest of my generation."
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اگر قراره بمیرم، بهتره به‌عنوان شهید در راه شجاعت و شرافت بمیرم و اگر اتفاقی برام افتاد، می‌خوام خبر مثل بمب منفجر بشه، تا برای بقیه نسل من الگو بشم.»
"Be happy, because I preferred to live with honour and dignity"
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«شاد باشید چون ترجیح دادم با غیرت و با شرف زندگی کنم»
"Whatever happens to me, I want the news of it to go off like a bomb, so that I become a role model for others of my generation."
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«هر بلایی سرم اومد، می‌خوام خبرش مثل بمب بترکه، تا بشم الگوی بقیه هم‌نسلی‌هام.»
He had left a will in a four-line note
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در یادداشتی چهارخطی وصیت کرده بود
Milad, who was full of passion and energy
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میلاد که سراسر شور و انرژی بود
Milad had been arrested once before, at the age of fifteen, during a protest gathering at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran
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میلاد یک بار دیگر هم در پانزده‌سالگی در جریان یک تجمع اعتراضی در گورستان بهشت‌زهرای تهران بازداشت شده بود

In the words of those close to them

But in the end it was he who, with his love of freedom and the sacrifice of his life, became my role model.— His brother Mohammadreza
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اما دست‌ آخر این او بود که با آزادی‌خواهی و ایثار جانش الگوی من شد.

I hope we go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning and see that Iran has been freed.— His brother Mohammadreza
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امیدوارم شب بخوابیم و صبح بیدار شویم و ببینیم که ایران آزاد شده است.

How they died

Milad was hit by a bullet on 18 Dey and taken to hospital, but lost his life on 20 Dey.
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میلاد هجدهم دی‌ماه هدف گلوله قرار گرفت و به بیمارستان منتقل شد، اما بیستم دی‌ماه جان باخت.
Lost his life after being hit by two bullets in the Naziabad neighbourhood of Tehran
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در اثر اصابت دو گلوله در محله نازی‌آباد تهران جان خود را از دست داد
Shot
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Shot
On 18 Dey he was severely wounded after being hit by two bullets in the Naziabad neighbourhood of Tehran and lost his life two days later in hospital
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۱۸ دی‌ماه در اثر اصابت دو گلوله در محلهٔ نازی‌آباد تهران به سختی مجروح شد و دو روز بعد در بیمارستان جان باخت
Two gunshots
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Two gunshots

After their death

Government agents would not hand over his brother's body to the family on Wednesday, the day set for the burial
Persian original
مأموران حکومتی پیکر برادرش را روز چهارشنبه، یعنی موعد خاکسپاری، به خانواده تحویل نمی‌دادند
Agents had taken Milad's body to use in a government ceremony
Persian original
مأموران پیکر میلاد را برای استفاده در یک مراسم حکومتی برده بودند

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