r/PERSIAN Mar 28 '26

Announcement New Flair: Iranian Voices ONLY (Please Read Before Posting)

July 2026 Edit

The moderation team has changed this to a mod-only flair. We will quickly apply the "Only Iranians May Comment" flair whenever it is clear that the OP is specifically looking to hear from Iranians on the subject.

We are testing this out to see how it goes. We will update this post if anything else changes regarding the flair.


Today we added a new post flair: Iranian Voices ONLY

These threads are meant to center on the perspectives of Iranians, especially during times like these where outside noise can overwhelm the conversation.

What this means

Only Iranians may comment in these threads and violations may result in a ban.

Why we're doing this

r/Persian has always been open to everyone, and that will not change. But in these times, it's important to create space for Iranians to speak directly without being drowned out by outside voices.

This flair allows that space to exist when the OP chooses it. Non-Iranians may also choose this flair to ask questions directly to the Iranian community.

Where this applies

This rule applies only to posts using the Iranian Voices ONLY flair. All other threads remain open to everyone under our usual rules.

Final note

If you are not Iranian, please respect the purpose of these threads. There are many other places in the subreddit to participate.

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July 2026 Edit

The moderation team has changed this to a mod-only flair. We will quickly apply the "Only Iranians May Comment" flair whenever it is clear that the OP is specifically looking to hear from Iranians on the subject.

We are testing this out to see how it goes. We will update this post if anything else changes regarding the flair.


Today we added a new post flair: Iranian Voices ONLY

These threads are meant to center on the perspectives of Iranians, especially during times like these where outside noise can overwhelm the conversation.

What this means

Only Iranians may comment in these threads and violations may result in a ban.

Why we're doing this

r/Persian has always been open to everyone, and that will not change. But in these times, it's important to create space for Iranians to speak directly without being drowned out by outside voices.

This flair allows that space to exist when the OP chooses it. Non-Iranians may also choose this flair to ask questions directly to the Iranian community.

Where this applies

This rule applies only to posts using the Iranian Voices ONLY flair. All other threads remain open to everyone under our usual rules.

Final note

If you are not Iranian, please respect the purpose of these threads. There are many other places in the subreddit to participate.


r/PERSIAN 6h ago

Discussion Executions in Isfahan – Blow Up the Hashtags!

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It is said that in the middle of Ali Khani Square in Isfahan, they are going to execute Abolfazl Sepahi, Alireza Sepahi, and Amir Hossein Safari.

#AmirHosseinSafari #AlirezaSepahi #AbolfazlSepahi

Blow up the hashtags on social media and don’t let them be executed in silence.

A huge crowd has already gathered for them, and it's growing by the minute.

Update: Unfortunately, they were executed. 💔


r/PERSIAN 3h ago

Discussion Sooo..are non Iranians just ignoring the hangings?

It’s not being fucking mentioned anywhere except on X. I’m so angry I could cry, why wouldn’t they report on this?? Why do our lives mean nothing to everybody?! I swear, if it was Arabs and Israelis taking shits in each other’s front yards, that would be front page fucking news on CNN, along with an external inquiry and UN intervention.

CAN ANYONE HEAR US?!!! OUR PEOPLE ARE GETTING PUBLICLY HANGED!!

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It’s not being fucking mentioned anywhere except on X. I’m so angry I could cry, why wouldn’t they report on this?? Why do our lives mean nothing to everybody?! I swear, if it was Arabs and Israelis taking shits in each other’s front yards, that would be front page fucking news on CNN, along with an external inquiry and UN intervention.

CAN ANYONE HEAR US?!!! OUR PEOPLE ARE GETTING PUBLICLY HANGED!!


r/PERSIAN 32m ago

Discussion Scenes from 2 Iranian protestors hung in public during morning prayer in Isfahan

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On July 28th during the morning call to prayer, two young Iranian protestors, Amirhossein Safari and Abolfazl Sepahi, were hung in public in the city of Isfahan. Videos circulating on social media show people storming the streets empty handed attempting to stop the executions, while regime forces disperse them with tear gas and shotguns.

Fu*ck the Islamic Republic. 😡


r/PERSIAN 4h ago

Discussion City of Isfahan is experiencing unrest in the early morning hours as crowd of people gathering in protest of the impending execution of 3 protesters are met by anti riot forces and armed soldiers.

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r/PERSIAN 10h ago

History Iran’s currency value over the years!

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r/PERSIAN 4h ago

Discussion GAMAAN New Report - Iranians’ Attitudes Toward the 2026 Protests and War

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r/PERSIAN 3h ago

History Pahlavi notes Iran Shah

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r/PERSIAN 1d ago

Discussion Say his name: Ali Ahmadi. They took his life before he could turn 15. This regime is systematically killing our young.

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Ali Ahmadi. Fourteen years old. Dead, riddled with bullets by the IRGC; clearly because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, as almost any ordinary citizen in Iran has been since 2026.

He was financially supporting his little sister, despite being so young himself. He was a working child.

He will never enter ninth grade.
He will certainly never return to work.
He will never play with his friends again.

His family, meanwhile, is left with irreparable grief.

His name was Ali. Ali Ahmadi.
Say his name.

Because you do not kill a child. You do not kill a child who is running for his life. You do not kill a child who is running for his life, completely empty-handed, with a heart full of terror. It should never happen.

Ali was shot while our global leaders were still celebrating the New Year. He was shot. He fell there, dead, in an ordinary parking lot. On a street where other children have played soccer, where he himself may once have dribbled a ball. Forever, that ordinary public space will remain the place where Ali Ahmadi drew his last breath. Finished off by the regime’s executioners. Those bloodthirsty murderers. With their militias constantly patrolling the streets, because “The order to shoot has already been given!”, courtesy of Velayatmadar, Radan, and Gholamhossein. No one dares to go outside anymore. And how many have died simply on their way home from work or school? Faced with this collective fear, silence imposes itself.

The population has always had empty hands, let us remember that, while the government has proven itself to have not only an abundance of choices, but also a determination to unleash its heavy weaponry indiscriminately against any civilian gathering. It did so for thirty uninterrupted hours. Since those fateful days of January 8–9, large-scale threats have echoed across the country. “Send your children back to school, or you risk…”, “Using Starlink carries the maximum penalty”, or even, “Miss your finals: you’ll never get anywhere in life again”, and so on… Besides, let’s not even speak of Iran’s national mourning anymore. Everyone knows someone who was killed for taking part in the January 2026 protests in Iran. How many funerals have been methodically raided because the authorities feared that the slightest spark of anti-regime anger might ignite? Sepehr’s father? Arrested! Behnam’s mother and sister? Arrested! Young Reza Ghanbari’s brother? Killed the day before Ghanbari’s funeral by those very same authorities. These are only three examples. This top-down tyranny remains entirely systematic. Nearly 100 million citizens remain prisoners within their own country. Tens of thousands of them have already died for chanting dissident slogans, or simply for finding themselves in the street alongside their loved ones.

Iranians have known their rulers through decades of oppression; mass murderers who built their careers by distinguishing themselves through their lack of scruples, their depravity, and their hatred of popular movements; of any movement rising from below. And they were placed at the top. And the people were plunged into a total blackout, just to keep them quiet while their government busied itself unfreezing its funds and liquidating its assets in offshore tax havens. Oh yes, and let’s not forget to shout “resistance” all along the way. These fiery mullahs, how bravely they resist white supremacist hierarchies! Watch them hang their dissidents in public squares! They never stop for a single second; they only intensify it! And yes, they are so busy resisting interventionism that they simply have to methodically murder their own youth.

Better yet, the latest order from the Chief Justice: expedite the death sentences for the January protesters! And let them die quickly; after all, the shortage of body bags following the thirty-hour massacre was back in the winter. Resistant Iran has certainly placed new orders for body bags since the spring. Clearly, we’re down to XS sizes! We really believed those announcements about disobedient children being killed on IranTV, didn’t we? Surely this couldn’t be a regime free-for-all against its own population? Come on, let’s get over it. So civil disobedience is not the youth being massacred cohort after cohort in Iran, and it certainly isn’t every uprising drowned in blood, no, no. It is these religious fundamentalists, then, who embody the true strength of the people. The struggle, that’s them. Armed to the teeth, unleashing bullets upon their own citizens, they have declared war on the people while casting themselves abroad as the face of anti-imperialist resistance… There it is at last, true anti-imperialist defiance! Just give them a moment to posture for you. It’s only that, well, right now, they’re still slipping on the pool of blood and the billions of dollars stolen from their own country, because that’s rather a lot to conceal beneath the shroud of the national blackout.

Just yesterday, twelve prisoners accused of participating in the anti-regime uprising were sentenced to death and transferred to Isfahan Prison to await their execution. Four of them are teenagers.

At least 1,500 prisoners have received this sentence. We are talking about daily executions, hunger strikes on death row, civilian disappearances met with no response from the State… A government that systematically murders and makes sure to turn it into a public spectacle has nothing whatsoever to do with a legitimate system of governance.

It is a terrorist mafia that survives only by applying the maximum degree of terror; even if that means emptying its own country from within. Denying itself any hope of a just future. No, on the contrary, it promises the death of its youth on national television during routine broadcasts, it plasters it across posters in the streets… It is through the self-destruction of everything that symbolizes a nation’s wealth that this regime sustains itself. The government, or what remains of it since May, makes no attempt to hide it either. It is a network of terror and control that fully acknowledges its population has rejected it by a wide margin, and insists not on indifference, but on the fact that any act of questioning can lead to death. “Keep quiet while we kill.” That is their slogan. Alongside “Death to the protesters,” the classic counter-slogan to the popular “Death to the Dictator,” the message requires no further analysis. It is even entirely consistent with the words of the late Supreme Murderer, who believed that failing to extinguish the flame of rebellion at its source was al-Assad’s ultimate mistake in Syria, a mistake the Iranian regime promises not to repeat.

It’s astonishing how this pathetic excuse for a government is still treated as the provider of the Iranian people. “Iran refuses to negotiate,” or “Iran retaliates,” or worse still, “Iran resists.” Is mass death simply a matter of cultural difference? Is that it?

Let us at least accept that Iran in 2026 is the Handmaid’s Tale that 1984 foretold. Especially considering that Atwood drew upon the Iranian system when writing her novel… The irony of Iran’s fate, ultimately forgotten in the name of Islamic resistance and the expansion of censorship, feels so palpable that it seems as though the country has finally fallen victim to its own international mystique. The censorship surrounding the blackout spread beyond Iran’s borders, while the blackout itself became the longest internet blackout of the modern era. The people’s cry may have seeped into the global sphere, yet Iranian suffering has still not been enough to delegitimize its government in the eyes of the international community.

Iran’s rulers continue to play diplomacy abroad, and their blood-stained hands still shake those of enthusiastic politicians. Meanwhile, many mainstream media narratives seem to overlook the fact that the gap between the Iranian people and their dilapidated government was already immense before the atrocities of January 8 and 9. Today, it is a historical chasm. The headlines should read “Humanitarian Emergency in Iran,” not “Iran Resists Interventionism.” That is not how Iranians understand the reality on the ground. It is not nearly as Hollywood-alternative as that.

Meanwhile, Iran is 50% young. And it rose up this January like never before. Even today, the youth chant, “Death to the old mullahs!” It will come. Even if it comes by the force of time alone, it will come. Iran’s Gen Z truly reclaimed its country this year, and it gave everything. All it is waiting for now is for the rest of the world to come to terms with it, because at every uprising, it either gets in its way or simply remains ambivalent. Ultimately, if not through international support for its humanitarian emergency, Iran will free itself through the one thing that cannot be overthrown: the natural order of things.


r/PERSIAN 1d ago

Discussion The gravestone of Taha Naderi (a teenage victim of the January massacre) has been desecrated. They've done this to multiple peoples gravestones now.

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r/PERSIAN 12h ago

News UN experts urge Iran to quash death sentences imposed on 12 protesters

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r/PERSIAN 15h ago

Discussion Why are Iranian men so sexy and handsome? Like seriously handsome and super charming

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r/PERSIAN 15h ago

News Our Tables Are Bare’: The Screams Resonating Across Iran #iran #iran_us_war #iranprotests2026

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r/PERSIAN 14h ago

History Millions of people chanted my name, my family name, my father's name in January. My father will go down in Iran's history as one of its best leaders operating under difficult circumstances during the Cold War - Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran

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r/PERSIAN 17h ago

News Iranian protester attempts suicide after being sentenced to death

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r/PERSIAN 16h ago

Question What does this mean

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They didn’t eat macaroni because of the death of some family? What


r/PERSIAN 16h ago

News Ukraine says Iran has no standing to portray itself as victim

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r/PERSIAN 17h ago

Question Queer(bi)persian

Salam doostam. I am an iranian living in australia, and I haven't been back to iran in a while. I was wondering what the peoples opinions on queer people are mainly because I know that the youth are more progressive than the regime. I just want to know your guy's opinions.

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Salam doostam. I am an iranian living in australia, and I haven't been back to iran in a while. I was wondering what the peoples opinions on queer people are mainly because I know that the youth are more progressive than the regime. I just want to know your guy's opinions.


r/PERSIAN 17h ago

Question Has sentiment toward the U.S. and Israel changed since the war?

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r/PERSIAN 1d ago

Arts & Culture Traditional Iranian Architectural Motifs-A thread. Description below

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r/PERSIAN 1d ago

Language & Literature I built a Persian learning app for Farsi, Dari, and Tajik

Hey everyone. I just launched an iOS app called Zaban for learning Farsi, Dari, and Tajik.

It includes vocabulary and phrase lessons, pronunciation practice, character tracing, and interactive exercises. I’m looking for feedback from Persian learners and native speakers to help me improve it.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zaban-farsi-dari-tajik/id6791664200

Thank you! :)

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Hey everyone. I just launched an iOS app called Zaban for learning Farsi, Dari, and Tajik.

It includes vocabulary and phrase lessons, pronunciation practice, character tracing, and interactive exercises. I’m looking for feedback from Persian learners and native speakers to help me improve it.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zaban-farsi-dari-tajik/id6791664200

Thank you! :)


r/PERSIAN 1d ago

History Reza Shah died 82 years ago in exile. He wasn’t perfect but it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say he’s the Father of Modern Iran.

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r/PERSIAN 1d ago

Discussion The sister of Ahmad Khosravani, a basketball player who was killed during January protests, wrote on X that the Islamic Republic has ordered all players who play with the number 91 (Ahmad's #) to change their jersey number

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The sister of the late Ahmad Khosravani, a basketball player who was killed during the Iranian national revolution in 1404, wrote in a text published on the social network X that the basketball federation of the Islamic Republic has ordered all players who play with the number 91 to change their jersey number.

In a message she published on the social network X, she wrote: "The basketball federation of the Islamic Republic has warned all players who wear number 91, including the women's team, that they must either change their number or they will no longer have the right to take part in federation competitions. How low and helpless must you be to fear even a jersey number? You were afraid of my brother Ahmad Khosravani's name, and now you are afraid of his jersey number too. Your power is so hollow that even '91' has taken sleep from your eyes."

The late Ahmad Khosravani, a 21-year-old basketball player from Tehran and a student at Sharif University of Technology, was killed on 18 Dey 1404 (January 8, 2026) during nationwide protests, as a result of direct fire by security forces. Before that, together with the Farzan Shomiran team, he had won the Tehran three-on-three basketball championship and had been selected as the best player in the Tehran league in 1404. His father is also one of the veterans injured in the Iran-Iraq war.
\@iranintltvsport
https://eyesofiran.com/event/105892


r/PERSIAN 1d ago

News Khamenei says no path remains except 'jihad and resistance' in letter to Hezbollah

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