Farhad Amani

Farhad Amani was a twenty-five-year-old from Tehran. Independent Persian reporting published via iranglobal described him as a confectioner who worked in a café, played percussion, and loved sport. IranWire and that report agree he was killed during the Dey 1404 nationwide protests and that his family went many days without news before receiving his body.

Accounts of how he died diverge. IranWire, citing an informed source, says security forces arrested him in Tehran’s Punak neighborhood on 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), that he was not wounded by live fire at the moment of arrest, and that on 20 January (30 Dey) the family was told to collect his body from the forensic medical office, where they found he had been killed by a gunshot to the heart. Independent Persian reporting instead says he was hit by three bullets on the Ashrafi Esfahani Expressway on 10 January (20 Dey) and that the family remained without news for about eleven days before collecting him from Kahrizak.

What is not in dispute is the shape of the loss: a young Tehran man erased in the January crackdown, a family forced to search in the dark, and a body returned only after days of silence. In a photograph from a birthday table he wears glasses and a quiet smile, cream and fruit still on the plate, the life that was taken from him.