More than five months have passed since the largest massacre of protesters in the contemporary history of Iran. While Iran spent half of 2026 under a total internet blackout, new names of those killed during the two nights of January 8 and 9, alongside testimonies from that bloody January, continue to leak to the world outside Iran.
This report is the narrative of Vahid Beigi, a 34-year-old protester from eastern Tehran who was hit in his left lower leg by a live round on the evening of January 8, at approximately 8:40 p.m., during the opening minutes of a gathering near the Coca-Cola Intersection on Pirouzi Street.
Vahid, whose bullet entered the back of his left calf and exited through the front, shattering his fibula bone at the point of impact, says that upon arriving at the streets surrounding Pirouzi, he wept at the sheer magnitude of the protesting crowd, seeing families composed of elderly people, children, youths, women, and men standing together to protest.
IranWire has reviewed documentation proving that his left fibula bone was shattered at the point of impact. He is currently undergoing medical treatment in another country.
I Wept at the Magnitude of the Crowd
