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 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.^{[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	1910	Shiraz	12		Anti-Jewish pogrom
Ottoman genocide of Assyrians during the Persian Campaign, the occupation of north-west Iran	1914–1918	Iran	12,000		According to The New York Times^[6]
Cinema Rex fire	1978	Abadan	470
Black Friday	1978	Tehran	88–4,000
1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners	1988	Iran	30,000		^[7]
2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash	2003	kerman	275
Nishapur train disaster	2004		300+

References

^ The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution. p. 1980.
^ ^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. Retrieved 12 May 2016.