The Iran I Know
A living archive of photos and videos from Iran's protest movements, gathered from multiple grassroots channels and platforms where people publish firsthand images and footage. Each entry is cataloged with semantic tags that connect people, places, events, and recurring themes so the collection stays coherent and easy to explore. The archive is maintained as a deliberate historical record, preserved for the long term as a counterweight to documentation that too easily disappears from social feeds and is given little sustained space in legacy media.
What you can browse here is still only a small fragment of the people killed, executed, or disappeared under the Islamic Republic since 1979. No single database can hold the full scale, and independent counts almost always lag behind what survivors and local reporting describe.
In early January 2026, as nationwide protests were crushed, some accounts cited on the order of 45,000 people shot in the violence of January 8 and 9 alone, while consolidated human rights documentation has confirmed far fewer deaths to date, and the true toll is likely higher but difficult to verify. During the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising after September 2022, monitors likewise pointed to more than 1,500 people killed in the first days of the crackdown, with fuller lists still unfinished.
Our aim is to grow this archive so it can acknowledge victims across the entire timeline: revolutionary courts and executions from 1979 to about 1981, the women's protest against mandatory Hijab and mandated Islamic dress codes in 1979, the 1988 prison massacres (A.K.A. the summer of 1367, when thousands of political prisoners, including many communists, were executed), the chain murders of Iran in 1988-98, the Mashhad uprising in June 1992, the Shadmehr (Islamshahr) uprising in June 1995, the nationwide student protests of July 1999, the Green Movement in 2009, the nationwide economic protests in 2017-2018, the nationwide crackdown of October 2019, and other waves of state violence, so these crimes are harder to forget.
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A memorial portrait of Mehdi Zanganeh, 17, who was injured and arrested in Dey 1404 in Shushtar and subsequently secretly buried after his family was informed of his death three weeks later.
The birthday of Sara Ebrahimi, a protester who was kicked to the ground and struck on the head with a machete by Islamic Republic agents during the Dey 19 massacre, was commemorated at her grave this year.
A memorial portrait of Somayeh Rezaei and Morteza Zoom-Poosh, a couple who were killed by bullets on Dey 18.
A memorial portrait of Ali Look, 28 years old, who was killed in Hasan Abad Fashafuyeh on 18 or 19 Dey during the Lion and Sun revolution.
A memorial for a mother who was killed, as expressed by her child mourning her death 5 months and 6 days later.
A memorial portrait of Amir Ali Ghanbarzadeh, 16, who was killed in Garmdarreh on January 9, 2026, after being hit by three bullets to the head.
A memorial portrait of Mehdi Jafari, who was killed by the Islamic Republic's forces in Tehran on January 9, 2026, during the national revolutionary wave.
A memorial portrait of Ghadir Ali Ramazani, who was killed on Dey 19 in Isfahan, Shahin Shahr.
A memorial portrait of Masoumeh Barabadi and her three children, who were victims of a family massacre in Sabzevar.
A memorial portrait of Mehdi Jafari, who was killed by the Islamic Republic's forces in Tehran on January 9, 2023.
A memorial portrait of Dr. Narges Elmi, a plant genetics elite, who was shot in the temple by Khamenei's mercenaries on Dey 21 in Tehran while driving.
A memorial portrait of Nasser Rezaei, who was killed on November 16, 2019, during the Aban 98 protests.