Nasim Pouraqaei

Nasim Pouraqaei (نسیم پورآقایی; also Pour-Aghaei) was a mechanical engineer, a married woman, and the mother of two young children in Tehran. Family and human-rights accounts remember her as someone who left home with hope and did not return.

On the evening of Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026), she and her husband joined the large protest crowd along Ashrafi Esfahani Street in the Sadeghiyeh area of Tehran. As people were heading home late that night, government forces fired live rounds. A cousin told IranWire that Nasim was shot in the head and neck. Her husband tried to shield her, then felt her weight go limp and blood soak his hands. He carried her body for about an hour before neighbours helped wrap her in a sheet and reach Payambaran Hospital. Her body was later among those processed at Kahrizak forensics. Relatives said she was roughly the four-hundredth body called for release that day.

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, IranWire's family interview, and the NCRI Women's Committee memorial all identify her among the Sadeghiyeh dead of that night.