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Khadijeh Alipour, a 40-year-old mother of an 11-year-old child, was killed by Islamic Republic forces on Thursday, January 8, 2026, in Fardis, Karaj. Her handwritten will, found stained with her blood in her pocket after her death, was described as more akin to a manifesto and revealed her conscious choice to protest. In her will, she declared:
I am an Iranian, a child of a worker. If I am in the streets today, it is because of you, the official who laughs at my pain. Today, we Iranians are in the streets, ready to sacrifice our lives, to reclaim our rights. We are neither terrorists, nor rioters, nor pawns of foreign powers We are proudly honorable children of workers, protesting. We have come to reclaim our country's rights from the privileged elites. We will remain in the streets. We will shout in unison: We are Iranian. We have roots in this soil. We will remain, we will fight, we will die, we will take back Iran. Death to the dictator! Child of the soil of Iran.