Vahid Arzanlou

Vahid Arzanlou (Persian: وحید ارزانلو), 43, was born on 19 Ordibehesht 1362 (9 May 1983) in the Khak-Sefid neighbourhood of Tehran. Married with three sons, he was a designer and manager in the family furniture firm Aysa Mobl Kian, which had about 30 branches across Iran. With his brother Hamid Arzanlou he helped organise bazaar strikes in the Delavaran furniture district of Tehran from the first days of the Dey 1404 uprising.

On the night of Thursday to Friday, 18 to 19 Dey 1404 (8 to 9 January 2026), during gunfire by government forces in Tehranpars, Hamid was shot in the head. Vahid ran to help him and was himself hit by two rounds to the neck. Both brothers fell into a coma. Vahid died in hospital on 17 January 2026 (27 Dey). Iran International places the shooting on the evening of Friday 19 Dey; the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation records 18 Dey. Security agencies demanded more than one billion tomans to release the bodies and pressed the family to call the deaths a stroke and to attend a 22 Bahman rally. They were buried in Behesht Zahra in Tehran, row 85, plot 48. At the funeral their brother Kioumars asked mourners who believed in the brothers' path to clap for them.