Ali Rahbar

Ali Rahbar (Persian: علی رهبر) was a sports-club coach and bodybuilder from Mashhad in Razavi Khorasan Province. His father's name was Hossein. He was about 33 years old.

He was arrested in Mashhad in the early days of the Dey 1404 protests, around Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026). On the morning of Wednesday, 2 Bahman 1404 (22 January 2026), about ten days after his arrest, independent outlets reported that he had been executed by hanging. A cousin told reporters and Witness Report that he had been detained for about ten days and that further details of the charges were not available. Ayandegan and other free-media accounts circulated the same report, citing BBC Verify journalist Farzad Seifikaran.

Iran's judiciary later denied that anyone by that name had been detained or executed in Razavi Khorasan; independent sources and his relatives rejected that denial. HRANA lists him among its confirmed victims, and his name appears in the list of the dead published by the government in February 2026.