According to a report received by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, Parviz Heydari, a 62-year-old Baha’i resident of Tehran, lost his life on March 3 after shrapnel struck his car while he was returning home from work.

According to the report, his car was hit by shrapnel during the incident. In a video circulating from the scene, Iranian Red Crescent rescue workers can be seen removing his body from the passenger side of the vehicle and placing it into a body bag.

Heydari was married, the father of two children, and the grandfather of a three-year-old. For many years, he had run a shop and worked in Tehran’s Dampezeshki Street area. According to relatives and acquaintances, he was widely known as a kind, well-respected, and trustworthy person among family members, friends, neighbors, and local shopkeepers. Local sources reported that after news of his death spread, many residents and business owners in the street where he worked installed condolence banners in his memory.

According to the information received, Heydari had also served as a soldier during the Iran-Iraq War and spent 28 months in war zones. Relatives recount that during the war he once survived a shrapnel strike that hit the trench where he and other soldiers were stationed; although he escaped serious injury, a fellow soldier beside him was killed in that incident.

Nearly four decades later, Heydari ultimately lost his life after shrapnel struck his vehicle. Like many others who have lost their lives in these events, he is remembered as having become an enduring name in the struggle for freedom in Iran.

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