Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh (Persian: محمد حسین فهمیده;[1] (1967-05-06)6 May 1967 – (1980-10-30)30 October 1980) was an Iranian child soldier and an icon of the Iran–Iraq War.

By 10 November, Iraqi forces had captured the key city of Khorramshahr after a protracted battle with Iranian resistance.

[3] According to his official biography,[4] Fahmideh was a 13-year-old boy from Qom who, at the outbreak of the war in 1980,[5] left his home without his parents knowing to go to southern Iran and aid in the defence of Khorramshahr, then a city at the frontlines of the conflict.

[3] Khomeini declared Fahmideh to be an Iranian national hero,[10] and made references to him in several of his speeches:[3][8] Our leader is that 13-year-old child, who, with his small heart—worth more than hundreds of tongues and pens—threw himself with a grenade under the enemy tank, destroying it and drinking the nectar of martyrdom himself.

[11][12] In the years following Fahmideh's death, murals have been erected throughout Iran, book bags displaying him were sold to children, and, in 1986, a postage stamp was issued in his memory.