 Pourzand died on 29 April 2011.According to his daughters, he committed suicide by jumping from the sixth-story balcony of his apartment in Tehran.His daughter, Banafsheh Zand, stated after his death that "He leapt to his own death to prove his disgust for a regime that is inhumane and un-Iranian", while another daughter, Azadeh Pourzand, commented that "I would like to think of his death as a way for him to finally find freedom."