List of massacres in Iran

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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 the Great puts the entire Cossaei nation to the sword in forty days.
Istakhr massacre 651 Istakhr 150,000[1] Rashidun Caliphate Part of Arab conquest of Persia. There are disagreements as to whether it constitutes a massacre.
Mongol mass-killings of Iranians 1219–1258 Iran 10,000,000–15,000,000[2] Mongol Empire 75%[2]-90%[3] of Iranian population killed
Siege of Isfahan (1387) 1387 Isfahan 70,000–200,000 Timurid Empire [4][5]
1910 Shiraz blood libel 30 October 1910 Shiraz 12 Angry mobs Anti-Jewish pogrom
Ottoman genocide of Assyrians during the Persian Campaign, the occupation of north-west Iran 1914–1918 North-west Iran 12,000 Ottoman Empire According to The New York Times[6]
Cinema Rex fire 1978 Abadan 470 Unknown
Black Friday 1978 Tehran 88–4,000 Imperial Army of Iran
1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners 1988 Iran 30,000 Government forces [7]
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

References
  1. The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution. p. 1980.
  2. Steven R. Ward (2009). Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-58901-587-6. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  3. "Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq". Archived from the original on 2008-04-23.
  4. Encyclopaedia iranica, Volume 1. ISBN 978-0933273993. the 1387 siege of Isfahan under Timur's personal direction ended in the slaughter of some 70.000 denizens of the city
  5. Chaliand, Gerard; Arnaud Blin (2007). The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to Al Qaeda. University of California Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0520247093. isfahan Timur.
  6. "Turkish Horrors in Persia". New York Times. 1915-10-11. p. 4. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  7. "News". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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