Fallen Hero Milad Nemati
Death Milad Nemati 31 years old in Iran Tehran نازی آباد
Written by: Javid
About an hour before a bullet strikes his neck, he turns on his mobile phone and, facing the camera, says: “Remember when you said you couldn't do a damn thing?” He addresses these words to the interrogator who had arrested him three months earlier and subjected him to hours of interrogation. Then he pans the camera toward the street; a crowd of people chanting in unison: “This is the final battle, Pahlavi will return, long live the King.” That very video, an hour later and coinciding with the news of his death, goes viral on social media, becoming one of the enduring images of those days. Three months prior, Milad Nemati had been arrested by security agencies for his open opposition to the Islamic Republic. But his presence in the January protests was not his first time on the streets. For years, he had been considered a critic of the regime, repeatedly voicing his opposition without reservation; a path that brought him arrest, interrogation, and threats, yet never stopped him from standing alongside the people. Milad, son of Naser, born in 1994 (1373), a resident of Shahr-e Rey, Salehin district, was a 31-year-old youth, an athlete, and the owner of a chocolate shop. His life was…
میلاد نعمتی · تهران · نازیآباد · شهرری
