Ahmad Ashiri
Dey 1404 Killed during protests
Life
- Ahmad was married.
Persian original
احمد متاهل بود.
- His father recalled that when leaving home he had put his father's prayer beads around his neck and hung the house key on them.
Persian original
پدرش به خاطر آورد که او هنگام خروج از خانه تسبیح او را به گردن انداخت و کلید خانه را به آن آویخت.
- On Friday, 19 Dey, he came out into the street again.
Persian original
جمعه ۱۹دی هم به خیابان آمد.
- Finally, on Wednesday, 24 Dey, they showed his family a picture and asked them to identify him by his clothes.
Persian original
در نهایت چهارشنبه ۲۴دی، به خانوادهاش تصویری نشان دادند و خواستند از روی لباسهایش او را شناسایی کنند.
- He identified him by those same prayer beads.
Persian original
از روی همان تسبیح شناساییاش کرد.
How they died
- Ahmad Ashiri, 34 years old, was hit in the head on Thursday, 18 Dey 1404, in the protests in "Dezful" by a shotgun of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic.
Persian original
احمد عشیری ۳۴ساله، پنجشنبه ۱۸دی۱۴۰۴ در اعتراضات «دزفول» سرش هدف سلاح ساچمهای نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی قرار گرفت.
- This time a sniper agent of the Islamic Republic, who was lying on the ground, killed Ahmad with a bullet.
Persian original
اینبار مامور تکتیرانداز جمهوری اسلامی که روی زمین دراز کشیده بود، احمد را با گلوله کشت.
- His family searched for him in hospitals for days.
Persian original
خانوادهاش روزها در بیمارستانها به دنبالش گشتند.
- The bullet had hit Ahmad Ashiri in the side.
Persian original
تیر به پهلوی احمد عشیری اصابت کرده بود.
- Ahmad Ashiri, 34 years old, lost his life on 19 Dey in Dezful after being hit by a bullet in the side.
Persian original
احمد عشیری، ۳۴ ساله، ۱۹ دیماه در دزفول با اصابت گلوله به پهلو جان باخت.
After their death
- Under highly securitised conditions, Ahmad's family buried him on 25 Dey in "Behesht-Abad", Dezful, in a grave in which his 7-year-old brother had previously been laid to rest.
Persian original
خانواده احمد او را در شرایطی بسیار امنیتی، ۲۵دی در «بهشتآباد» دزفول در قبری که پیشتر برادر ۷ساله او آرمیده بود، به خاک سپردند.
- His wife was threatened with arrest over holding the fortieth-day memorial of his death, on condition that the ceremony be held in silence.
Persian original
همسرش برای برگزاری چهلمین روز درگذشت او به بازداشت تهدید شد، مشروط بر اینکه مراسم در سکوت برگزار شود.
Sources
- HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency)
- Iran Human Rights Society
- Iran International — memorial map
- Iran Human Rights Society
- Iran International
- IranWire
- Iran International
Listed in
- Javid-Nam of the uprising of January 2026 (Lion and Sun Revolution)
- The massacre of 8 and 9 January 2026
- Killed during protests
- The year 1404 (2025–2026)
- Dey 1404
- Khuzestan Province
- Dezful
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