Ahmad Ramazanzadeh

Ahmad Ramazanzadeh (احمد رمضان‌زاده), 30, was the first-choice catcher of Iran's national baseball team and a coach of children's baseball in Mashhad, where he trained young players without charging them anything. Those who knew him remembered how hard he worked: he went to bed at 10 at night and left for work at 5 in the morning. He once played the West Asia championships with a broken finger, and after surgery he came straight back and pulled the struggling Khorasan team together again. Weeks before his death, the Khorasan baseball board wrote that Ahmad was "not just a catcher in a defensive position, he is the pole holding up the tent of this team."

He joined the protests in Mashhad on 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026). Although he had been hit in the head by a pellet, he went back out on Friday, 19 Dey 1404 (9 January 2026). That day, in the Emamat area of Mashhad, security forces shot him with a handgun and killed him. His body was handed to his family only after three days and after they were made to sign pledges, and they were not allowed to hold a memorial ceremony. The Mashhad baseball committee shared his picture with the words: "Mashhad is without Ahmad."