The title compound, [CuZnI2(C17H16N2O2)], is a doubly oxygen-bridged hetero-dinuclear complex, with the Cu-II ion in a distorted square-planar environment involving two O and two N atoms from the bis(salicylidene)1,3-propanediaminate (SALPD(2-)) ligand. The Cu ... Zn distance is 3.0933 (7) Angstrom(.) The coordination sphere around the Zn centre is a distorted tetrahedron comprising two bridging O atoms and two terminal iodides.