Amir Farshad Ebrahimi

Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (born August 14, 1975) is a founding and former member of hard-line pressure group Ansar-e Hezbollah, a former member of the Basij militia, and an Iranian journalist. Quitting Ansar-e Hezbollah after its involvement in the attack on students in 1999, he was imprisoned in Iran, fled to Turkey and then Germany, where as of 2009 he worked to publicly identify members of plain-clothed men who beat up Iranian protesters of the disputed election. Ebrahimi condemned the attack and even gave a speech about it to the university students. Ten days after however, he was kidnapped from his house by some of the same people he used to work with, and spent eight months in prison. During this imprisonment, Ebrahimi says he was "physically and psychologically tortured", kept in solitary confinement in "a small coffin-sized cell", and left with injuries including a broken chin and rib. According to him, his interrogators tried to force him to confess "to having received orders from key reformist figures". Ebrahimi alleged "that prominent conservative figures supported the activities of violent right-wing vigilante groups".

Hardline newspapers reported the existence of the confession, which they called the "Tape makers" case. In a number of inflammatory stories, they claimed Ebrahimi was mentally unstable and that Ebadi and another lawyer Rohami had manipulated him into testifying, and in any case confession blemished the Islamic revolution. He left Turkey to come to Germany and in 2009 was identifying members of plain-clothed men who beat up Iranian protesters following the disputed 12 June 2009 election.

As of 2023, Ebrahimi had a channel on YouTube with 2760 subscribers and 221 videos, billing himself as "freelance broadcast photo journalist and blogger".