Reports indicate that the body of Omid Sarlak, a 27-year-old from Ali-Goodarz, was discovered in his car with a bullet wound just hours after he posted a video criticizing Khamenei on social media. Local sources and social media users revealed that his lifeless body was found on November 10, showing signs of a gunshot, and a weapon was located beside him.

Authorities have not yet made an official comment on the incident. Sarlak had shared an Instagram story a day before his death, which featured a video of Khamenei's image being burned, overlaid with the voice of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. In the accompanying text, he criticized poverty, humiliation, and the pressures of the Iranian regime, urging youth to demonstrate "courage and resilience."

He wrote, "Death to the cleric, how long will we endure poverty and humiliation... Now's the time to show yourself, young ones, prove yourselves."

Close family sources report that security forces have prevented the family from receiving his body, pressuring them to declare the cause of death as "suicide." Social media users have suggested that Sarlak was killed by security agency affiliates due to his recent statements and video.