Zahra Najafi
زهرا نجفی
- Age
- 30
- Sex
- female
- Date of death
- 8 January 2026
- Place of death
- Mashhad
- Event
- Lion & Sun Revolution
- Cause of death
- shot by government agents
Biography
Zahra Najafi was a 30-year-old pregnant woman who was shot and killed by government agents in Mashhad while in her husband's arms. She had recently married her husband after 14 years of family opposition. Following her death, a security agent reportedly told her grieving husband that he was being left alive so that he would 'die every day' from the pain of his loss.
زهرا نجفی، ۳۰ ساله و باردار، در ۱۸ دیماه ۱۴۰۴ در مشهد توسط ماموران حکومتی در آغوش همسرش به ضرب گلوله کشته شد. او و همسرش پس از ۱۴ سال مخالفت خانواده، تنها ۱۷ ماه پیش از این واقعه ازدواج کرده بودند. بر اساس گزارشها، در زمان خاکسپاری، یک مامور امنیتی به همسر داغدار او گفته بود که او را زنده میگذارند تا هر روز از رنج این سوگ بمیرد.
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A portrait of 30-year-old Zahra Najafi, a pregnant woman who was reportedly killed by government agents in Mashhad on January 8, 2026.
A portrait of 30-year-old Zahra Najafi, who was reportedly pregnant and was shot and killed in Mashhad on January 8, 2026, during the national uprising.