Burials at Behesht-e Zahra

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

Iranian Prime Minister and President of Iran (1933-1981)

Iranian politician (1919-1979)

Iranian cleric, one of the leading figures of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (1928–1981)

Iranian cleric (1933-1981)

Iranian politician (1932-1981)

Iranian royal and one of the wives of Reza Shah

Iranian general

Persian politician (1910-1979)

Iranian actress

Iranian revolutionary and Ruhollah Khomeini's wife

Prime Minister of Iran (1881-1973)

Iranian writer and sociologist (1926–2012)

Iranian politician (1928-1998)

writer, editor and singer (1935–2008)

Iranian mathematician

Iranian filmmaker and author

Iranian revolutionary (1956-1983)

Iranian actor

poet (1925-1973)

Iranian prison warden

Iranian journalist, women's rights activist (1889–1981)

Iranian royal

Iranian military officer (1939–1981)

Iranian writer and translator (1926–2013)

Iranian journalist (1897-1972)

Iranian activist

Iranian politician (1938-1975)

Iranian general

Iranian singer (1910–1999)

co-founder of the People's Mujahedin of Iran

Iranian politician (1956-2006)

Iranian army general and politician (1905 – 1992)

Iranian singer and opera singer