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 gathering of people, some around a banner depicting Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Lion and Sun emblem, with the caption reflecting on participants' fate and encouraging attention to their message, including #JavidShah.
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Footage shows young people in Mashhad trapped in an alley while being shot at directly with a pistol and shotgun.
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A painful video shows the family of Javidnam Hossein Soleimani receiving his body; he was a 40-year-old patriotic father of two, killed by direct fire from Islamic Republic terrorists in Gorgan on the nineteenth of Dey.
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A painful video captures the mother of Javidnam Pejman Norouz Rajabi attending a birthday memorial for her heroic son, a 27-year-old patriotic young man killed by direct fire from the Islamic Republic's forces in Shahsavar on the 18th of Dey.
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A memorial portrait of Mohammad Javad Rahimian, 32, an IT engineer, who was killed in Eslamshahr on the 19th of Dey by direct combat bullet fire from the Islamic Republic's terrorists.
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A memorial video featuring Ali Akbar Tayebi Javid, 45, who was killed in Qazvin on January 8, 2026 by direct fire from Islamic Republic terrorists.
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A memorial portrait of Gulale Mahmoudi Azar, a twenty-six-year-old woman from Mahabad, who was killed on the 18th of Dey (January 8) in Tehran by direct shooting from the terrorists of the Islamic Republic.
A memorial portrait of Amitis Sadeghi, who was 17 years old and whose path of resistance continues.
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A memorial portrait of Asal Shafiee, who died on October 2, 2022, as part of continued calls to speak about Iran.
A memorial portrait of Leila Gordani, who was killed in Marvdasht on Dey 18th.
A memorial portrait of Alireza Zarefar, whose child wanted his name not to be forgotten, killed on January 9 in Fardis, Karaj.
A memorial portrait of Milad Sheyda Gomassani, born in 1376, from Malayer and a resident of Marlik, who was shot on the 19th of Dey and became a Javidnam, with his family pressured to declare him a martyr due to financial problems.