Mohammad Rahmati

Mohammad Rahmati (Persian: محمد رحمتی) was a 28-year-old man born in 1376 (1997/98) who lived with his elderly father in Tehran's Heravi neighbourhood. His mother had died years earlier, and he had no siblings. Relatives told Iran Human Rights that he had long been sensitive to street harassment of women and spoke of hoping for change.

On the evening of Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026), about half an hour after he left home for the nationwide protests, security forces shot him near where he lived. Tanya Rahmati, a relative, told Iran Human Rights that three or four bullets hit his abdomen, at least one a war round. Friends tried to carry him home; his father then took him to Labafi Nejad Hospital. Accounts differ on whether he died on the way or before surgery. The body was later moved to Kahrizak without the family's knowledge. After three days of searching among unnamed bodies there, relatives identified him by a code. To receive the body they were forced to sign a pledge blaming "terrorists" and barring media contact. Further pledges against filming and gathering were taken at burial. Shahidan-e Ghiyam records that the body was handed over on 23 Dey and buried at Behesht-e Zahra. Iran Pedia lists him at Heravi Square on 18 Dey.