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Zahra Najafi was a 30-year-old pregnant woman who was killed by government agents on January 8, 2026, in the city of Mashhad. She was reportedly shot and died in the arms of her husband during the unrest. Her death came at a time when she and her husband had only recently begun their life together. After enduring 14 years of family opposition to their union, they had been married for just 17 months before she was killed. The cruelty of the incident was further highlighted by the reported words of a security agent at her burial. When her grieving husband, overcome by loss, asked to be killed as well, the agent reportedly told him that they were leaving him alive so that he would "die every day" from the pain of his loss.

زهرا نجفی، زن ۳۰ ساله‌ای که در زمان مرگ باردار بود، در تاریخ ۱۸ دی‌ماه ۱۴۰۴ در شهر مشهد توسط ماموران حکومتی هدف گلوله قرار گرفت و در آغوش همسرش جان سپرد. زندگی مشترک زهرا و همسرش داستانی از ایستادگی بود؛ آن‌ها پس از ۱۴ سال مخالفت خانواده، سرانجام ۱۷ ماه پیش از این واقعه با یکدیگر ازدواج کرده بودند. این پیوند کوتاه با کشته شدن زهرا و فرزند متولد نشده‌اش به شکلی تراژیک پایان یافت. بر اساس گزارش‌ها، در زمان خاکسپاری، برخورد نیروهای امنیتی با خانواده او بسیار بی‌رحمانه بوده است. گفته می‌شود وقتی همسر داغدار او از ماموران خواست که او را هم بکشند، یک مامور امنیتی به او گفت که او را زنده می‌گذارند تا هر روز از رنج این سوگ بمیرد.