Iran Holocaust

About

About iranholocaust.org — an independent multilingual documentary record of 47 years of repression in Iran, built on named victims and primary sources.

About

Iran Holocaust.

iranholocaust.org is an independent, non-commercial documentary record of 47 years of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran — built around named victims, primary sources and photographs published under stated licenses or fair-use editorial provisions.

What this is

A free, multilingual archive in 35 languages — covering the 1979 revolution, the 1988 mass executions, the Green Movement, Woman Life Freedom, and the 2026 Crimson Winter. Sixteen chapters, an open bibliography, more than two hundred footnotes.

What this is not

It is not aligned with any government, party, or opposition faction. It does not solicit donations. It carries no advertising. It exists to make erasure harder.

Sources

UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, HRANA, Iran Human Rights (IHR), Center for Human Rights in Iran, Boroumand Center, Hengaw, IHRDC, BBC, Reuters, AP, NYT, Le Monde, Al Jazeera and Iran International.

Editorial policy

Every contested figure is attributed. Every photograph is credited. Corrections are welcomed and applied promptly — see the Contact page for how to reach us.

Languages

Read in your language.

English · Español · 中文 · हिन्दी · العربية · Français · Português · Українська · Italiano · Русский · 日本語 · Deutsch · বাংলা · فارسی · اردو · Türkçe · 한국어 · Bahasa Indonesia.

Verified record

How many were killed, and how

A dated casualty tracker, the roster of documented public hangings, and the record of the strikes on the Islamic Republic — all sourced and updated.

Open the death toll tracker

Independence, funding & how to cite

Independence

iranholocaust.org accepts no government grants, foundation funding, NGO sponsorship, opposition-party support, or advertising revenue. Hosting and domain costs are covered by the maintainers. The site never has been and will not be sold.

Open-source archive

The full text of the archive, including translations, is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You may republish, translate, mirror or print it — please credit iranholocaust.org and link back.

How to cite

Suggested citation: iranholocaust.org — an independent multilingual record of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran, accessed [date], https://iranholocaust.org. For a specific page, cite its title and URL.

Mirrors

The archive is mirrored on the IPFS network and through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to resist takedown attempts. If iranholocaust.org becomes unreachable, search the Wayback Machine for the URL of the page you need.

Languages

The archive is published in 35 languages. Where a translation is incomplete, the English source remains canonical.