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 Alireza Raeisi, who was arrested after participating in protests in Isfahan in January 2026 and executed on October 5, 2026.
A memorial portrait of Amirali Saghaei, who participated in protests in Narmak, Tehran, in January 2026, was arrested in Kish on April 1, 2026, and whose body was returned to his family two weeks later.
A memorial portrait of Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, who was arrested for participating in protests in Shahrekord in Dey 1404 and executed on October 3, 2026.
A memorial portrait of Maryam Ghorbanipour, an elite PhD student at Beheshti University from Shahrekord, who was killed by plainclothes Basij forces during student protests at the university on October 21, 2022.
A memorial portrait of Siavash Farokhi is displayed on a building, as his family laments his nine-month absence and expresses not knowing what to do with their home without him.
A memorial portrait of Alireza Sepahi, who was arrested following protests in Dey 1404 (January 2026) in Isfahan and executed on October 5, 2026.
A memorial portrait of Alireza Sepahi, a newlywed Javidnam.
A memorial portrait of Razieh Rafiei, who was killed in Shahinshahr, Isfahan, on January 10, 2026, during the Lion and Sun revolution.
A memorial portrait of Pardis Mohammadi, a 24-year-old woman who died in Isfahan on 20 Dey from pellets in her heart and waist, and was subsequently buried at night with only 20 attendees.
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A video shows the grieving mother of javidnam Atefeh Abed embracing and crying over a dress her daughter had bought for her engagement, in memory of Atefeh Abed, a 23-year-old law graduate killed in Mashhad on January 9, 2026, during the Lion and Sun revolution.
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A memorial video clip of Majid Farnia, recorded in Tehran during 1403 (2024-2025), commemorating a victim killed by authorities.
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A memorial for Alireza Sepahi, a groom whose life was unfulfilled.