Keyvan Rezaei

Keyvan Rezaei (Persian: کیوان رضایی) was a Kurdish man from Kermanshah and a follower of the Yarsan faith. He lived in Dareh Deraz (Darreh Deriz), also known as Shahrak-e Mahdieh, a neighbourhood of Kermanshah whose residents are largely Yarsan.

On the evening of Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026), protests in Dareh Deraz continued until about 3 a.m. Hengaw and Kolbarnews report that government forces, especially the Revolutionary Guards' Nabi Akram Corps, fired on the crowd with heavy weapons, including DShK machine guns and Kalashnikovs. Keyvan Rezaei was hit by direct fire from a military weapon and killed. Kurdpa confirmed his identity through an informed source, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network also lists him among the Kurdish dead of Dey 1404.

Hengaw recorded at least four other men killed in the same assault on Dareh Deraz that night: Yasin Mirzaei, Behrouz Safaei, Saman Nazari (23) and Sayyad Faramarzi. Nurse Navid Salehi was also killed in the neighbourhood that day. The authorities have given no official account of his death.