Iranian‑Canadian Mourns Cousins Killed in Tehran Protests
Tayebeh Poshtareh reports cousins shot in Tehran’s January crackdown, prompting calls to name victims.
In early January 2026, Iranian‑Canadian Tayebeh Poshtareh learned via Instagram that her second cousins, Hamid (30) and Vahid Arzanlu (28), were shot on Jan. 8 during a Tehran protest sparked by late‑2025 nationwide unrest. Both were hospitalized but died—Hamid on Jan. 12 and Vahid a few days later. Poshtareh lives in Newmarket, Ontario, and her family has been forced to sign documents claiming the men were IRGC members or pay $3,000 for their bodies, under pressure from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, now a EU‑designated terrorist group. The protests, still shrouded by a nationwide internet blackout, have left a death toll disputed between 6,159 (activists) and 3,117 (government). Iranian communities in Canada are demanding the victims be named and remembered.
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