Photo: Hengaw · Iran International (Javidnaman)
Yaser Modirrousta
یاسر مدیرروستا
2026
- Taken
- 9 January 2026 (Sources differ)
- Age
- 42 years old
- From
- Karaj, Alborz
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Yaser was a musician who played and taught the tar and the setar. He ran the Pazhvak-e Honar music school in Kamalshahr, Karaj, and spent years teaching there.
A person close to him told BBC Persian that over his career he trained a great many tar and setar players, and he performed in concerts himself, including with the music group Koucheh Bagh.
Away from music he was a mountaineer, one of the best known in his city.
How the regime took them
Yaser disappeared on 9 January 2026 near Rastakhiz Square in Gohardasht, Karaj. From the next day his family went again and again to detention centres, hospitals and Behesht-e Sakineh cemetery, and were told nothing.
After 13 days the police called them to Behesht-e Sakineh to identify him. He had been shot in the chest. His body had been buried by mistake in place of someone else, and his face was so badly injured that he was identified by his fingerprints. He was finally buried in Kamalshahr. (HRANA dates his death to 8 January.)
