Mehran Samak

مهران سماک

2022 · 4 years ago

Taken: 29 November 2022
Age: 27 years old
From: Bandar Anzali, Gilan

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Their life

Mehran Samak was 27 and from Bandar Anzali on the Caspian coast. As boys he and Saeid Ezatolahi, later a midfielder for the national team, played football together; after Mehran's death Ezatolahi posted a childhood photo of the two of them and called him his teammate from those years. The sources say little more about his life.

How the regime took them

On the night of 29 November 2022, after the national team lost to the United States at the World Cup, Mehran went out in Bandar Anzali, honking his car horn, to celebrate what Iran Human Rights called the Islamic Republic's loss. Iran Human Rights says security forces targeted him directly and shot him in the head.

Police denied it and said he had been hit by a hunting rifle; the prosecutor said a pellet killed him and opened a case into a suspicious death. At his funeral in Bandar Anzali the crowd chanted death to the dictator.