Hamid Arzanlou

Hamid Arzanlou (Persian: حمید ارزانلو), 50, was born on 17 Tir 1354 (8 July 1975) in the Khak-Sefid neighbourhood of Tehran, the son of Mahmoud and Belqis. Married with two young children, he managed sales for the main Tehran showrooms of the family furniture firm Aysa Mobl Kian, which the six Arzanlou brothers had built from a small workshop into a network of about 30 branches. With his brother Vahid Arzanlou he helped organise bazaar strikes in the Delavaran furniture district of Tehran from the first days of the Dey 1404 uprising, including the large 17 Dey strike.

On the night of Thursday to Friday, 18 to 19 Dey 1404 (8 to 9 January 2026), during gunfire by government forces in Tehranpars, Hamid was shot in the head and fell into a coma. Vahid ran to help him and was himself hit by two rounds to the neck. Hengaw reports that Hamid died in hospital on Sunday 21 Dey (11 January 2026) after three days in a coma; Iran International's Javidnaman memorial records the same date. Iran International's feature places the shooting on the evening of Friday 19 Dey; the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation records 18 Dey. Security agencies demanded more than one billion tomans (Hengaw cites about 1.5 billion) to release the brothers' bodies and pressed the family to call the deaths a stroke and to attend a 22 Bahman rally. They were buried in Behesht Zahra in Tehran, row 85, plot 48. At the funeral their brother Kioumars asked mourners who believed in the brothers' path to clap for them.