Posted on 07/30/2026 2:35:36 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Iranian security agents allegedly cut away skin bearing tattoos of Reza Shah and an imperial crown before killing a 21-year-old protester before later shooting him dead, according to sources close to his family.
The sources told Iran International that Amirhossein Nobakht Pardasti was wounded by pellet fire and detained during the January protests at around 10 p.m. on January 8 near 30-Metri Street in Bagher Shahr, south of Tehran.
They said he was taken to hospital, where agents used blades and box cutters to remove skin and flesh bearing the tattoos before shooting him dead in what they described as an execution-style killing.
Nobakht Pardasti had previously been arrested during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, when he was 16.
‘Signs of torture’
His family said they received no information about his whereabouts after his detention.
When they eventually recovered his body from Kahrizak, they found extensive signs of torture, according to the sources, including severe bruising across his face and body and apparent fractures to his jaw, nose and shoulders.
The section of his arm bearing the tattoos of Reza Shah and an imperial crown had been cut away, with skin and flesh removed, the sources said.
They added that Nobakht Pardasti also had the word "Iran" tattooed on his throat and that pressure marks consistent with strangulation or restraint were visible around his neck.
Against nationalist symbols
Nobakht Pardasti's case is not the first in which Iranian authorities have been accused of targeting tattoos carrying nationalist or royalist symbolism.
One of the best-known cases was Majidreza Rahnavard, a protester executed in Mashhad on Dec. 12, 2022.
Rahnavard had a Lion and Sun emblem tattooed on his left forearm. Images published after his arrest showed the tattooed arm badly injured and immobilised in a cast and bandages.
A person close to Rahnavard told Iran International that agents repeatedly struck the arm with batons and stun guns because of the tattoo, eventually breaking it.
While the accounts cannot independently establish an official policy, the similarities between Nobakht Pardasti's case and earlier reports suggest security forces may have deliberately targeted tattoos depicting pre-revolutionary Iranian symbols as a form of punishment, humiliation and torture.
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But Obama said Islam is a religion of peace !!
Actually that was George W Bush after the muslim attacks on our country .BUT he was wrong to do it.
“No Kings”
The Left in America, wishes to do similar things to MAGA hat wearers and people with Trump bumper stickers on their vehicles.
Religion of Pieces ... as they say.
This young Iranian suffered horribly before (mercifully) being shot to death for his beliefs.
Both his forearms were covered with tattoos.
Big time!
It’s time for America to go full Pinochet while we still can.
Pure unadulterated EVIL!!! And they say The United States is the Great Satin.
MoFos are anti-freedom barbarians.
All of that was bad enough BUT nothing happened until the “call for prayer” and it was then that the chaos began. I don’t say this lightly but it was satanic in nature. The switch flipped and immediately the shooting started. I am now convinced that a sizable proportion of IRGC and BASIJ became possessed as a group, a group possession if you will, and it was all ignited by that ugly, ugly “call to prayer.”
Animals.
why are the court buildings still standing that are handing out these virdicts?
why are the judges and leadership homes still intact?
we have the GPS coordinated of EVERY SINGLE person in the Iran government. WHY WHY WHY are we not systematically taking them out!?!?!?!
Problem is none of our recent presidents have actually lived in a Muslim country. All they know is a few modernized Muslims in America. Therefore none of them really understand the real Islamic theology.
There.
Yes, but Carter declared that Ayatollah Khomeini was a man of peace and therefore the Shah Reza Pahlavi was forced from power. That was a giant CF as mass executions occurred shortly thereafter. Iran was a much better place before the Ayatollah.
We should have given him an AK47 instead of a glimmer of hope. It would have served him better.
Looks like a fag, earrings, eyeliner. He’s fortunate they didn’t throw him off a building too.
The damage Bush did with that pronouncement is incalculable.
Defense intelligence couldn’t even posit that Islam was the root cause, and therefore a KEY JUDGMENT in intelligence analysis. The Christians in the intelligence community were shaking our heads.
If that’s what you’re getting out of this report, then I think you really missed the point.
CC
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