Majidreza Rahnavard was only 23 years old, an age when life is usually just beginning to open its doors. Instead, his name became a wound in the memory of a nation, whispered with grief, anger, and love by people who never met him, yet somehow knew him.

Majidreza was not a symbol when he woke up in the mornings. He was a young man with dreams, fears, and a heart that beat fast in a country where courage had become dangerous. He walked into the streets during the 2022 protests not because he sought death, but because he sought dignity. He believed—like so many others—that life should be more than silence, more than fear, more than enduring injustice with bowed heads.

He did not walk into the streets out of hatred, but out of devotion—to a country whose history, dignity, and soul meant everything to him.