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Ghazal "Mona" Heydari (24 December 2004 – 5 February 2022) was an Iranian Arab teenage girl who was beheaded in Ahvaz, Iran in an honour killing by her husband. Mona and her husband were first cousins. Pictures and videos of her husband, Sajjad Heydari, smiling while carrying her head, caused widespread outrage in Iran. [1]
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery.She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by stoning for her crimes.
Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi (Persian: زهرا کاظمی احمدآبادی; 1948 – 11 July 2003) was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist.She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by Iranian authorities, in whose custody she was killed.
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
75% [1]-90% [2] of Iranian population killed Siege of Isfahan (1387) 1387 Isfahan: 70,000–200,000 Timurid Empire [3] [4] Massacre at the Russian Embassy in Tehran: 30 January 1829 Tehran, Qajar Iran: 54 Persian Mujahideen, Employees of the British mission in Iran Mass murder of members of the Russian embassy and the Armenian refugees they ...
Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui, whose 1969 “The Cow” opened up a new era in Iranian filmmaking, and his wife have been found stabbed to death in their home outside Tehran, Iran’s state ...
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in police custody last week after she was accused of not wearing her hijab properly and was detained by Tehran’s morality police.
Saeed Hanaei or Said Hanai (Persian: سعید حنایی; 1962 – April 8, 2002) was an Iranian serial killer, arrested in 2001 for the murders of at least 16 women in Mashhad. [1] Hanaei was referred to as the "Spider Killer" for the way he lured his victims, mainly prostitutes, back to his home before strangling them.