Amirhossein Saedi’s father had urged him to stay home. The protests sweeping Iran were growing more dangerous by the day, and the 19-year-old computer science student was still recovering from illness.
But Saedi was determined. “Adrenaline has risen in my blood,” he told his family. “I’m flying. Tonight, I want to fly.”
By the next evening, Saedi was dying in his father’s arms – shot in the face on the street in Tehran during a brutal crackdown on demonstrations by Iranian security forces, according to a relative inside Iran who spoke to CNN anonymously for fear of reprisals.
Thousands were killed in a matter of days in early January. But for Saedi’s family, like so…