Mohammad Parsa Amini, 17, killed while helping a wounded protester in Fardis

Mohammad Parsa Amini, a 17-year-old from Fardis in Karaj, was shot by security agents and killed on the night of 8 January 2026, during the Dey uprising, while helping a wounded protester. New details of his life, published on Monday 9 November, exactly ten months after he was killed, show that the teenager had been interrogated and harassed by security forces since the age of 13.

According to information received by Iran International and a source close to the Amini family, he was taken to a clinic in Fardis after being shot and died there. According to this source, a nurse called the family and asked them to remove the body from the clinic before agents arrived. The family kept the body at home until morning and then took it to Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery in Karaj for the paperwork. Handing over the body and the burial took five days, and Mohammad Parsa was finally buried under security measures at the Imamzadeh Ebrahim shrine in Malard, next to his grandfather's grave.

From the 2022 protests to the night of 8 January

Mohammad Parsa was only 13 during the 2022 protests and took part in the school protests and turban-tossing in Fardis. After that, security forces repeatedly detained and interrogated him. According to those close to him, four masked men once beat him, threatened him and forced him to swallow a pill, which he spat out. The family moved house to escape the threats, but agents found the new home too and the harassment continued.

He left school after tenth grade to work. Those close to him describe him as an energetic and independent teenager. On the night of 8 January, when his family worried about him going out to join the protesters, he told them: "My blood is not more precious."

Teenagers among the fallen of the Dey uprising

The nights of 8 and 9 January were the peak of the Dey uprising in Karaj and many other Iranian cities, and a large number of those killed in the uprising died on those two nights. In Karaj, the Islamic Republic last week executed Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh, three protesters of the Dey uprising. Mohammad Parsa Amini's fate shows once again that the security forces targeted even those who went to help the wounded.

Mohammad Parsa Amini was 17 and was shot dead by security agents while helping a wounded protester.