Massacres in Iran

The 2025–2026 Iranian protests are a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation, and widespread shortages linked to international sanctions and government mismanagement. This event has been the largest uprising in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, spreading to more than 200 cities across the country. The ensuing crackdown, reportedly carried out under orders by Ali Khamenei and senior officials to use live fire on protesters, resulted in massacres that left thousands of protesters dead, making them the largest massacres in modern Iranian history.

bombing in Kerman, Iran, on 3 January 2024 at a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani

state-sponsored mass executions of political prisoners in Iran

mass shooting of protesters in Pahlavi Iran on 8 September 1978

2022 mass shooting in Iran

Mongol campaign against the Shia Nizari Ismaili state (1253-1256)

massacre in Mahshahr, Iran on November 2019

part of Reza Khan modernizing & unveiling women

part of the Iranian Revolution

1829 massacre in Iran

part of 2026 Iran massacres

1554–1555 military campaign