List of massacres in Iran
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This is a list of genocides in Iran.
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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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, in one of the rare adveeserial accounts available from non-Iranian sources that admit genocide was committed by Macedonian and Ionian people against Iranians. |
Istakhr massacre | 651 | Istakhr | 150,000[1] | Rashidun Caliphate | Part of Arab conquest of Persia[citation needed] |
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 | 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 | 2,800–30,000 | Government forces | [7] |
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 |
See also[]
- List of massacres of Nizaris
References[]
- ^ The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution. p. 1980.
- ^ Jump up to: a b 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.
- ^ "Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq". Archived from the original on 2008-04-23.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Turkish Horrors in Persia". New York Times. 1915-10-11. p. 4. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "News". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on February 10, 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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