Event articles
When one event is known by several names, they share a single article. The articles follow this archive, Iranian witnesses, and independent Farsi and English reporting. Figures are attributed. They are not treated as one official total.
Lion & Sun Revolution
28 December 2025 to present
9393 items archived
Woman Life Freedom
16 September 2022 to late 2022, with a continuing aftermath
921 items archived
November 2019 protests
15 to 19 November 2019, with a continuing aftermath
433 items archived
Bloody Friday of Zahedan
30 September 2022, with weekly Friday protests afterward
39 items archived
Nojeh coup
July 1980, with trials and executions afterward
30 items archived
Green Movement
June 2009 to early 2010, with a continuing aftermath
19 items archived
1988 prison massacre
Late July 1988 through the autumn of 1988, with families still kept from the graves
210 items archived
Chain murders of Iran
1988 to 1998, with the 1998 killings most widely documented
30 items archived
July 1999 student protests
8 to 13 July 1999, with a continuing aftermath
12 items archived
Dey 96 protests
28 December 2017 to January 2018
2 items archived
Women's protests against compulsory hijab
8 March 1979 onward, with workplace orders from 7 March 1979 and criminal punishment from 1983
3 items archived
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
8 January 2020, with memorials and accountability efforts afterward
14 items archived
2024 election boycott
1 March 2024 parliamentary vote, and 28 June to 5 July 2024 presidential vote
10 items archived
July 2021 Khuzestan water protests
15 July 2021 and the days that followed
2 items archived
1979 post-revolution executions
15 February 1979, with further Revolutionary Tribunal executions in the months after
5 items archived
Iranian school poisoning attacks
30 November 2022 through 2023
1 items archived
May 2022 protests
early May to 31 May 2022
3 items archived