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Mazyar Samimi
Mazyar Samimi (Persian: مازیار سمیعی زبده), also written Maziar Samimi Zebdeh, was a 28-year-old from Shaft who lived in Rasht, Gilan Province. His full family name appears in the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center's Omid memorial and in the government's published list of the dead as Samii Zobdeh Kohneh Gurabi, with his father's name given as Morteza.
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Mazyar Samimi (Persian: مازیار سمیعی زبده), also written Maziar Samimi Zebdeh, was a 28-year-old from Shaft who lived in Rasht, Gilan Province. His full family name appears in the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center's Omid memorial and in the government's published list of the dead as Samii Zobdeh Kohneh Gurabi, with his father's name given as Morteza.
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights verified that on Thursday, 8 January 2026 (18 Dey 1404), he was shot by government forces while inside his car near Razi Square (Falakeh-ye Razi) in Rasht; the bullet struck his forehead. Boroumand and some memorial posts date his death to 19 Dey. His body was buried around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, 21 Dey 1404 (11 January 2026), in his home village of Osmavandan, under a heavy presence of intelligence agents.
HRANA's Crimson Winter tally lists him as confirmed among the dead of Rasht, and Iran International's Javidnaman memorial records him among the city's dead at age 28. Hengaw named him among fourteen people killed in the Gilan and Mazandaran protests that week.
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