Omid Saedi

Omid Saedi (Persian: امید ساعدی; also written Saeedi) was a thirty-nine-year-old Kurdish man from Sanandaj (Sine) in Kurdistan Province who lived in Tehran.

On Thursday, 18 Dey 1404 (8 January 2026), he went out with his younger brother, Pouria Saedi, to join the nationwide protests in the Tehranpars neighbourhood of eastern Tehran. Omid was killed by gunfire from government forces. As Pouria, then thirty-four, stood over his brother's body, he was hit by several rounds of pellet fire, badly wounded, and arrested by security forces.

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that the authorities demanded 700 million tomans from the family before they would release Omid's body. Later that month AvaToday reported that Pouria, a wrestler and former national team member, had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison while still wounded and denied proper treatment, and that the family had not yet received Omid's body.

Hengaw verified his identity on 18 January 2026 together with two other Kurdish men killed in Tehran, Nasir Nasiri and Arsalan Ghahramani. Tavaana, Iran International's Javidnaman memorial, and HRANA's report The Crimson Winter also record his killing, at age 39, on 18 Dey in Tehran.