Mohammad Ranjbar

Mohammad Ranjbar Hosseinabadi was about 31–32 years old, a married father of a three-year-old son named Nariman, and the owner of an auto-parts shop in Arak, Markazi Province. A source close to his family told Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) that he was raised in a religious but non-governmental household, loved Iran deeply, and was “a pillar of support for the entire family.”

On the evening of 9 January 2026 (19 Dey 1404), according to that family-close account, he joined a crowd at Shoora Square (Bagh-e Melli) in Arak. Minutes later security forces shot him; he fell shouting in pain. Bystanders could not reach him under the gunfire, and forces removed his wounded body. He had been shot three times in the chest and abdomen. (Hengaw, which listed him among eleven Markazi victims, dated the Arak killings to the evening of 10 January and described him as a 32-year-old Turkish man from Arak.)

Four days later the Arak Legal Medicine Organisation contacted the family. Officials said they would release the body only if relatives signed a form declaring him a Basiji and paid 600 million tomans (about US$4,000). The family refused the Basiji declaration and struggled for two days to raise the money. After a private memorial on 14 January, his body was released and buried at 4:30 a.m. in darkness at Arak cemetery, with thirteen security officers present and only his father, mother, and wife allowed. Relatives were threatened that speaking publicly would mean confiscation of his shop and arrests.