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The term "chain murders" was first used to describe the murder of six people in late 1998. The first two killed were 70-year-old Dariush Forouhar (secretary general of the opposition party, the Nation of Iran Party), and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari, whose mutilated bodies were found in their south Tehran home on 22 November 1998. Forouhar ...
Iranian Kurdish dissident Reza Taslimi: 24 April 1990 Coppet Switzerland: Kazem Rajavi: Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN Suspected Iranian agents 15 August 1990 Konya Turkey: Elî Kaşifpûr: Member central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran: 6 September 1990 ...
Between 1963 and 1979 he estimated 3164 in the anti-Shah movement were killed. [9] The Foundation of Martyrs identified 744 dead in Tehran (where the majority of the casualties were supposed to have occurred). The coroner's office counted 895 dead; and Tehran's main cemetery, Behesht-e Zahra, 768 dead. [10]
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. [2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution; [3] [4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion ...
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 ...
During that time two monarchs — Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi — employed secret police, torture, and executions to stifle political dissent. The Pahlavi dynasty has sometimes been described as a "royal dictatorship", [1] or "one-man rule". [2]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region ...
Neda Agha-Soltan (Persian: ندا آقاسلطان – Nedā Āghā-Soltān; 23 January 1983 – 20 June 2009) was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 presidential election protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her car when she was fatally shot in the upper chest.