A regime is still killing them — and the world keeps offering it deals.
Under the Islamic Republic of Iran, at least 716 children have been killed by the state and its forces — and these are only the ones we have been able to name. The real number is higher; the youngest were only days old. They were not combatants. They were not threats to anyone. They were sons and daughters with names, with ages, with futures the state took from them. This page exists so the world cannot look away — and so the killing, and the deals that excuse it, finally stop.
A government is meant to protect its young. The Islamic Republic has instead met its children with live ammunition in the streets, with torture in detention, and with the gallows. Children have been shot during protests, have died under interrogation, and — in a practice almost no other state still carries out — have been sentenced to death for acts they were accused of committing as minors. The youngest names on this page were only days and months old.
The violence does not end with the killing. Wounded children have been denied honest medical care; official causes of death have been rewritten; bodies have been returned to families only on condition of silence, and doctors who recorded the truth have been threatened. This deliberate suppression of clinical and forensic evidence is itself a weapon — and it is the reason the full number of Iran's dead children may never be known.
The 716 children named here are only those we could document. For every confirmed name, others have been lost to internet blackouts, coerced silence, and the destruction of evidence. The true toll is higher. These are not statistics: each is a child who should be alive — in school, asleep at home tonight. We refuse to let them be reduced to a figure in a report. So we say their names.
And yet Iran's children have never been only victims. A generation born and raised under the Islamic Republic — its Gen Z — has become the beating heart of the movement against it. In 2022, after twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police, schoolgirls pulled the compulsory hijab from their heads, stared down armed security forces, and gave the world a rallying cry: Woman, Life, Freedom. Teenagers were among those who paid for it with their lives.
When the uprising returned and deepened, the same generation carried it further. Across more than two hundred cities, young Iranians raised the Lion and Sun — the flag of an Iran older than the Islamic Republic — knowing that to hold it could mean prison or death. The Lion and Sun revolution is, more than any uprising before it, a revolution of the young: a generation that has decided it would rather risk everything than inherit its parents' fear.
The regime understands exactly what this means. It is why it turns its weapons on the young. This page is for the children it has already taken — and a refusal to let their courage, or their deaths, be erased.
To kill a child and then forbid the world from speaking their name is to kill them twice.
children killed under the Islamic Republic of Iran — the youngest only days old. Every name below is a life that should still be here.
716 of 716 names · ages in years unless noted (mo = months)
These 716 are only the children whose deaths we have been able to document and name. The real number is far higher. Countless cases were never recorded — erased by censorship, internet blackouts, coerced silence from grieving families, and the destruction of evidence. For every name on this wall, there are others the regime has tried to make disappear.
No name matches that search.
The killing of children is not an aberration. It is the method of a government that turns its weapons on its own people as a matter of policy. In just two days in January 2026, Iran's security forces killed thousands of protesters — by documented estimates drawn from the regime's own leaked records, more than 36,500 people, and likely far more — in what has been called the deadliest two-day protest massacre in modern history. A government capable of that is not a partner to be managed. It is a threat to its own people, and to humanity.
For decades the world has answered that threat with negotiation — deals, sanctions relief, diplomatic cover — that have only bought the regime time, money, and impunity. Every agreement that treats it as a legitimate government strengthens the hands now firing on children in the streets. There is no deal that makes a regime like this safe.
The only lasting end to this killing is a free Iran. Iranians — led by a generation that has decided it would rather risk everything than live in fear — are not asking the world to save them. They are asking it to stop propping up their jailers. Stand with them: deny this regime legitimacy, end the deals that fund it, and support the Iranian people's own struggle to win their freedom.
No deals with the people who killed these children.
Silence is read in Tehran as permission. Three things, from the smallest to the strongest — pick one and do it now.
The simplest, most powerful act of all: bear witness. Share one child's name and story so they cannot be erased. Every person who repeats a name keeps that child in the world's memory.
Your elected representative answers to you. Send them this letter and ask for five concrete things: condemn the killings as crimes against humanity, back the UN Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur on Iran, oppose any deal that legitimizes or funds the regime, impose targeted sanctions on those responsible, and stand with the Iranian people's struggle for freedom.
Amplify the international mechanisms built to document these crimes. Submit evidence, support the documentation of cases, and back the organisations preserving this record for future prosecution. Accountability begins with a record that cannot be denied.
Not only Iran's — ours, every one of them. Their names are in your hands now. What you do next is the difference between a memory and a movement.