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The two judges were reportedly adjudicating cases of student protesters, artists, intellectuals and activists [4] in bench trials and had roles in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. [1] [5] The perpetrator killed himself soon after the shooting, before he could be apprehended. [6] No potential motive has been released. [7]
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 ...
A positive value represents more people entering Iran than leaving the country. Despite stagnation in the economy, Iran's Human Development Index rating (including life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living) improved significantly in the years after the revolution, climbing from 0.569 in 1980 to 0.759 in 2007/8. [11]
The judiciary identified the judges who were killed as ayatollahs Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini. Russia To Seal Partnership Treaty Days Before Trump Takes Office An Iranian flag waves at a park ...
The exact number killed is unknown, but estimates by some human rights organizations say that up to 5,000 people were killed. [13] [3] Others, such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), put the estimate between 2,800 and 30,000. [2] Amnesty International and United Nations Human Rights Council estimate that at least 30,000 killed. [8] [page needed]
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 ...
More than 100 people have killed and another 200 injured in two explosions near the tomb of Iran's former top commander – who was assassinated in a US drone strike in 2020.. The blasts occurred ...
An estimated 380, [50] not 15,000 demonstrators were killed during the June 1963 demonstrations in Iran, some of them armed. [51] A report commissioned (but not published) by the Martyrs Foundation found the total killed in clashes between demonstrators and the Shah's army/security forces during the fourteen months from October 1977 to February ...