Ghazal Janghrban
With the words ‘Oh, Dad,’ on her lips, Ghazal was gone.
Ghazal Janqorban was only fifteen years old…
A girl from Isfahan, with simple dreams and a pure heart that had barely begun to bloom.
But on January 9, 2026, beside the Zayandeh Rud, while attending popular protests with her mother and father, she was shot by government forces. Three bullets were fired into her back. Ghazal said, “Oh, Dad,” and then she was gone.
Ghazal was her family’s only child… her mother’s whole world, her father’s every hope.
She was a daughter walking between her mother and father, in what should have been the safest place in the world… yet the one who fired into the heart of this family had no aim but to destroy it. They took the child so they could leave a wound forever in her family’s heart.
Although Ghazal has now taken flight, her name is no longer only a sorrow in the hearts of her mother, her father, and all of Iran. Her name has been recorded beside the thousands of freedom-seekers who gave their lives on the path to freedom.
She is now a martyr for the cause of freedom, and her voice echoes through the heart of this land.
A girl from Isfahan, with simple dreams and a pure heart that had barely begun to bloom.
But on January 9, 2026, beside the Zayandeh Rud, while attending popular protests with her mother and father, she was shot by government forces. Three bullets were fired into her back. Ghazal said, “Oh, Dad,” and then she was gone.
Ghazal was her family’s only child… her mother’s whole world, her father’s every hope.
She was a daughter walking between her mother and father, in what should have been the safest place in the world… yet the one who fired into the heart of this family had no aim but to destroy it. They took the child so they could leave a wound forever in her family’s heart.
Although Ghazal has now taken flight, her name is no longer only a sorrow in the hearts of her mother, her father, and all of Iran. Her name has been recorded beside the thousands of freedom-seekers who gave their lives on the path to freedom.
She is now a martyr for the cause of freedom, and her voice echoes through the heart of this land.
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