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 for Alireza Safavi at his grave, where his family expresses profound sorrow, mourning his death instead of celebrating his wedding.
A memorial portrait of Mohammad Reza Hosseini, 26, a newlywed who was killed on January 19 in Islamshahr by direct fire from Islamic Republic terrorists.
A memorial portrait of Sama Esmaili, a 20-year-old artist and painter, who was killed in Shiraz on January 19th during the Lion and Sun revolution.
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A memorial video features a message from the mother of Javidnam Amirsaleh Borji, along with footage of his grave and a man crying in a cemetery.
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A memorial portrait of Ebrahim Mostafa Pour, who was killed on January 8 in Babel by direct fire from Islamic Republic terrorists.
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A memorial portrait of Ghasem Salami, who was wounded on January 8, 2025, on 17 Shahrivar Street near Khorasan Square while helping teenagers and died two weeks later in the hospital, framed within the context of the Lion and Sun revolution.
A memorial portrait of Sarina, remembered on her birthday.
A memorial portrait of Matin who was killed on January 2026 during the Lion and Sun revolution.
A memorial portrait of Amir Hossein Shakari, a 20-year-old former member of Iran's national youth Taekwondo team from Rasht, whose family refused an offer to "buy his name" on January 8, 2026, during the Lion and Sun revolution.
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A memorial portrait of Fatemeh Sheikh who was killed in Falavarjan County Governor's Office on January 2026 during the Lion and Sun revolution.
A memorial portrait of AmirSalar Bahman Nejad, 16 years old, who was killed in Isfahan on January 9, 2026, during the Lion and Sun revolution.
A memorial portrait of Majid Farrokhzad, shared with a request for compatriots abroad to print his photos for a July 4th call, so his 5-year-old son can see pictures of his father.