List of massacres in Iran

This is a list of massacres in Iran.

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Destruction of Persepolis	February 330 BC	Persepolis	Unknown	Ancient Macedonian army	Civilian population and captives slaughtered at random upon conquest of the city. City burned to the ground in May 330 BC.
Massacre of the Cossaei	December 324 BC/Early 323 BC	Zagros Mountains	Unknown	Ancient Macedonian army	Alexander III put the entire Iranian Cossaei people to the sword in forty days. Unknown death toll but most likely a few hundred to a thousand or so .
Istakhr massacre	651	Istakhr	Unknown	Rashidun Caliphate	Part of Arab conquest of Persia [ citation needed ]
Mongol mass-killings	1219–1258	Khwarazmian Empire	10,000,000–15,000,000 [1]	Mongol Empire	75% [1] -90% [2] of Iranian population killed
Siege of Isfahan (1387)	1387	Isfahan	70,000–200,000	Timurid Empire	[3] [4]
Massacre at the Russian Embassy in Tehran	30 January 1829	Tehran, Qajar Iran	54	Persian Mujahideen, Employees of the British mission in Iran	Mass murder of members of the Russian embassy and the Armenian refugees they sheltered. Subsequently, the Mujahideen killed almost the entire Russian embassy
1903 Isfahan anti-Baháʼí riots	1903	Isfahan	Unknown	Crowds
1910 Shiraz blood libel	30 October 1910	Shiraz	12	Angry mobs	Anti-Jewish pogrom
Ottoman genocide of Assyrians during the Persian Campaign	1914–1918	North-west Iran	12,000	Ottoman Empire	According to The New York Times [5]
Haftevan massacre	1915	Haftevan, Iran	750-800 Assyrians and Armenians	Ottoman Empire, Kurds	Ottoman forces and Kurdish collaborators attacked the Assyrian village of Haftevan in northwestern Iran, and killed between 750 and 800 Assyrians and Armenians.
Khoy Massacre	1918	Khoy, Iran	3,800 Assyrians	Simko Shikak	After the Khoy Massacre of 1918, the surviving Assyrians fled the region, many seeking refuge in Russia or Iraq. The attacks of Simko Shikak led to further massacres against Assyrians in Persia, which almost completely destroyed their communities there.
Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922)	1918 to 1922	North-Western Iran	5,000
Cinema Rex fire	19 August 1978	Abadan	470	Unknown
Black Friday	8 September 1978	Tehran	88–4,000	Imperial Army of Iran
Haft-e Tir bombing	28 June 1981	Tehran	74	MEK	74 people are killed in a bombing targeting a meeting of leaders of the Islamic Republican Party at the party's headquarters
1981 Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing	30 August 1981	Tehran	8	Masoud Keshmiri (agent of MEK)
Chemical bombing of Sardasht	28 June 1987	Sardasht, West Azerbaijan	130	Iraq	Iraq dropped mustard gas bombs on Sardasht, West Azerbaijan, In two separate bombing runs on four residential areas, the attack killed 130 people and injured 8,000
Bombing of Kermanshah's park shelter	16 March 1988	Kermanshah, Kermanshah province	76	Iraq	76 persons --mostly women/children-- who were in the shelter, were killed and more than 200 persons were injured
Iran Air Flight 655	3 July 1988	Strait of Hormuz, near Qeshm Island	290	United States Navy	Airliner shootdown by United States Navy
1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners	July–December 1988	Iran	2,800–30,000	Government forces	[6]
Imam Reza shrine bombing	20 June 1994	Mashhad	25-26	Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Shakoor, MEK, Al-Haraka al-Islamiya al-Iraniya	70-200 injured
2009 Pishin bombing	18 October 2009	Pishin, Sistan and Baluchestan Province	43 people including several notable IRGC commanders	Jundallah	43 people died in the attack, in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, and dozens more injured
2010 Khorasan shootout	2 January 2010	South Khorasan Province	10	Drug smugglers
2017 Tehran attacks	7 June 2017	Tehran	18	ISIS
2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing	13 February 2019	Kurin	27	Jaish ul-Adl
Mahshahr massacre	16-20 November 2019	Mahshahr	40-148	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	Killing of protesters during 2019–2020 Iranian protests
Saravan massacre	22 February 2021	Saravan	10	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	IRGC forces blocked a road used by local fuel truckers. As residents tried to confront the military over the roadblock, the army opened fire. The shootings, which killed at least 10 people (one of them a 17-year old child), sparked outrage and triggered the 2021–2022 Sistan and Baluchestan protests. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Mostazafan Foundation shooting	14 May 2022	Ilam province	4	Unidentified former employee	a former employee of the Mostazafan Foundation killed 3 workers and injured 5 more with a firearm. He later committed suicide. [11] [12]
2022 Shah Cheragh attack	26 October 2022	Shiraz, Fars province	13	ISIS	Mass shooting at Shah Cheragh mosque. Authorities stated that the attackers were not Iranian nationals.
Attack on Izeh market	16 November 2022	Izeh, Khuzestan province	7	Iranian security forces	Violent crackdown on locals and protesters, 7 killed and 15+ injured
2024 Kerman bombings	3 January 2024	Kerman	96	Islamic State – Khorasan Province	A double suicide bombing occurred on the fourth anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's assassination during a commemorative ceremony.
Kerman Shooting	21 January 2024	Kerman	5	Unidentified soldier	A soldier opened fire inside a barracks dormitory, killing five of his comrades. [13] [14]
2024 Saravan killings	27 January 2024	Saravan	9	Unidentified gunmen	Killings of Nine Pakistani workers by unknown assailants
Faryab shooting	17 February 2024	Mazraeh Imam, Faryab, Kerman	13	Bahram Jeshanpur [15]	Twelve people are killed after A 30 year-old Bahram jeshanpur opens fire on his relatives during a family dispute at a village of Mazraeh Imam [16] in Faryab, Kerman province. The gunman was later shot and killed by police in a nearby village [17] [18]

See also

• List of massacres of Nizaris

References

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