This is a list of massacres 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 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+ |
the 1387 siege of Isfahan under Timur's personal direction ended in the slaughter of some 70.000 denizens of the city
isfahan Timur.