Shahid Fahmideh (Persian: شهید فهمیده‎‎; full name: Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh, محمدحسین فهمیده) (born 6 May 1967 in Qom – 30 October 1980 in Khorramshahr) is a war hero of Iran and an icon of the Iran–Iraq war.In September 1980, Iraq started the invasion of Iran via air and land, sending five armoured and mechanized divisions across the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand Rud) waterway to invade the oil-rich Khuzestan Province in southern Iran, quickly seizing several towns in the area, and on November 10, captured the city of Khorramshahr.According to his official life story, Fahmideh was a 13-year-old boy from Qom who, on the outbreak of war in 1980 with Iraq, made his decision to leave his home without his parents knowledge to go to southern Iran and aid in the defense of Khorramshahr, the front line of the war.