Diana Bahador

Diana Bahador, known online as "Baby Rider," was a 19-year-old motorcycle rider and social-media figure from Gonbad-e Kavus in Golestan Province. IranWire reported that around midnight on Friday, 9 January 2026 (19 Dey 1404) she was killed by two live rounds fired by security forces during the crackdown on protests in Gorgan. Her family received her body on 11 January after two days of searching.

According to IranWire’s source, she had joined protests on the nights of 8 and 9 January; the crackdown in Gorgan on the 9th was especially severe. After her death, a message on an Instagram account associated with her claimed she had died in a traffic accident, pressure IranWire linked to intelligence agencies forcing the family to deny state responsibility. Iran Pedia lists her among Golestan victims, notes she was known as Baby Rider, and records that agents threatened her father to say she had died in an accident or they would kill his son. She was buried quietly.