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Mehdi Heydar Arabi

مهدی حیدرعربی

Age: 19
Sex: male
Date of death: 8 January 2026
Place of death: Piroozi, Tehran (+5 more)
Hometown: behind and
Event: Lion & Sun Revolution (+2 more)
Profession: computer engineering student, guitarist, motorcyclist
Cause of death: shot by security forces

Story

Mehdi Heydar Arabi was a 19-year-old computer engineering student, guitarist, and motorcycle enthusiast. He was killed on January 8, 2026, in the Piroozi neighborhood of Tehran after being shot from behind by security forces during the protest movement.

مهدی حیدرعربی، دانشجوی ۱۹ ساله مهندسی کامپیوتر، گیتاریست و موتورسوار بود. او در تاریخ ۸ ژانویه ۲۰۲۶ در محله پیروزی تهران، در جریان اعتراضات بر اثر شلیک مستقیم نیروهای امنیتی از ناحیه پشت مورد اصابت گلوله قرار گرفت و جان باخت.

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Mehdi Heydar Arabi was 19, a computer engineering student, guitarist, and motorcyclist. He joined the Lion and Sun movement and was killed in protests on January 8, 2026. Security forces shot him from behind in the Piroozi neighborhood of Tehran. People documenting the killings and seeking accountability remember him as a patriotic young man who died pursuing freedom.

مهدی حیدرعربی، دانشجوی ۱۹ سالهٔ مهندسی کامپیوتر، گیتاریست و موتورسوار بود و در جریان انقلاب شیر و خورشید شرکت می‌کرد. در اعتراضات ۸ ژانویه ۲۰۲۶ (۱۸ دی ۱۴۰۴) کشته شد. نیروهای امنیتی در محلهٔ پیروزی تهران از پشت به او شلیک کردند. در میان دادخواهان، او جوان میهن‌پرستی است که در راه آزادی کشته شد.

Archive — 6 items

18-year-old Mehdi Heydar Arabi was shot from behind and killed with live ammunition in the Piroozi neighborhood of Tehran on January 8, 2026.

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Piroozi neighborhood, Tehran, Iran8 Jan 2026

A group of people gather around the flower-covered grave of 18-year-old Mehdi Heydar-Arabi, who was reportedly shot and killed in Tehran's Piroozi neighborhood on January 8, 2026.

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Tehran8 Jan 2026

VIDEO

Memorial portrait of Mehdi Haider Arabi, a nineteen-year-old patriot and computer engineering student, killed in Tehran on January 7 by direct fire from Islamic Republic terrorists during the Lion and Sun revolution.

mehdi_haider_arabilion_and_suniran_revolution_2026january_2026javidnam

Piroozi, Tehran8 Jan 2026

VIDEO

Memorial portrait of Mehdi Heydar Arabi, a nineteen-year-old patriotic youth, guitarist, motorcyclist, and computer engineering student, killed on January 8, 2026, in Pirouzi, Tehran, by direct gunfire from Islamic Republic terrorists.

lion_and_suniran_revolution_2026javidnammehdi_heydar_arabiprotest_victims

Tehran2026-01

VIDEO

A memorial portrait of Mehdi Heidar Arabi, remembered with the slogan 'We neither forgive nor forget'.

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Iran2026-01

VIDEO

A memorial portrait of Mehdi Heydar Arabi, who was 19 years old.

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Iran

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Updated 2026-10-10T21:48:20.525479+00:00 . Based on co-tagged people, roster name match, face similarity, visual similarity, and duplicate links within this person's archive items (6 visible in catalog).

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#3941 roster 100
#12695 roster 100
#14838 roster 100 visual 0.94 · perceptual
#17118 roster 100
#17117 roster 100 visual 0.94 · perceptual

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item:3942 ↔ item:12695 (0.742 )
item:3942 ↔ item:14838 (0.653 )
item:12695 ↔ item:14838 (0.600 )
item:17117 ↔ item:17118 (0.507 )
item:3942 ↔ item:17118 (0.451 )
item:14838 ↔ item:17118 (0.395 )
item:14838 ↔ item:17117 (0.379 )
item:12695 ↔ item:17118 (0.375 )
item:3942 ↔ item:17117 (0.356 )

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item:14838 ↔ item:17117 (0.938 · perceptual)

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