What the records say
- When
- 20 Jun 1981 – 21 Mar 1982
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 32.00° N, 53.00° E
- Description
- killings during Iran's cultural revolution
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
1981–1982 Iran massacres
Killings during Iran's cultural revolution
The 1981–1982 Iran massacres were a state-sponsored campaign of violence aimed at exterminating political and religious adversaries of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It followed a period of unrest and protests that culminated in the June 28, 1981 bombing at the Islamic Republican Party headquarters, in which 74 leading officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran were killed.
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