Father's Plea for Justice After Son's Death

Greetings,

I am the father of the late

Sepahr Cheki.

One of those who lost their lives

January 8, 2026

on Pirouzi Street, Nabard Street,

at the entrance to Nankali Alley,

My twenty-five-year-old son lost his life

and

I would like to say to Mr. President, Mr. Pezeshkian that

you went to the United Nations

and

accused our children of being

rioters, agitators,

terrorists

and armed.

Based on what evidence and documents did you make this

claim? I,

as the complainant, as someone who

is heartbroken over this, ask Tehran's police chief and the head of Tehran Criminal Investigation

that

all

the cameras in that area be checked to see that that night, at that time, at

nine twenty, my child was shot with live ammunition from a high

position.

They shot him in the chest.

Investigate and see whether my child was armed, whether he was a rioter.

Maybe we did not know. Maybe our child had a weapon in his hand,

but he definitely did not, Mr. Pezeshkian.

If our children were rioters and terrorists,

then why do they come every day and tell us, “Come declare them martyrs”?

Why do they keep saying, “Come—your child has been martyred”?

And

Mr. Imam Hossein

says

speak the truth, no matter how much it harms you.

Aren’t you versed in eloquence, Mr. Pezeshkian?

What achievement have you had, other than going and calling our children

terrorists at the UN, behind the microphone? Saying they

had weapons? What— what was your achievement, Mr. Pezeshkian?

But my achievement, as Sepehr’s father,

in the wars that have passed,

especially the recent wars,

was that we were at the oil company, distributing gasoline, with

tanker trucks.

All these oil company workers

under bombardment, under missile fire,

were working alongside those millions of liters of gasoline,

and we were serving all the people of Iran.

Then do I deserve for my child to be killed and for you to call him a terrorist?

What achievement do you have, Mr. Pezeshkian?

Our children, our people are hurting because of what you're doing.

They're hurting.

I wish the Islamic Republic officials, I wish Mr.

President,

You, whose children are all abroad— an MP himself

says there are five thousand and some of

the officials' children in Europe and America, all with dual

nationality, all of them

live abroad, and some of them really thumb their noses at the Iranian

people.

I won't name names anymore.

But I wish the country's officials would visit the Do Koohé Garrison in Andimeshk

in '66

and the words

of Martyr Hajj Ebrahim Hemmat, commander of the 27th Division,

would cross your minds. He said, if position and rank

were permanent, rest assured, they wouldn't have come to you.

So don't rely so much on your position and rank, and don't

make the hearts of us, the families of those remembered forever, the families of the murdered,

so dark and bloodied.

I wish some of this country's officials would resign over this matter.

In any other country, the officials would

either resign or be impeached.

Our children weren't terrorists, they were flowers cut down

solely because of

your misguided economic policies. Goodbye.