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  "attribution": "iranholocaust.org",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-06-17",
  "description": "Named-entity dictionary for AI grounding. Maps the entities discussed on iranholocaust.org to stable Wikidata identifiers so answer engines can resolve coreferences correctly.",
  "people": [
    { "name": "Mahsa (Jina) Amini", "role": "22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman killed in morality-police custody, 16 Sept 2022. Trigger of Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.", "wikidata": "Q113980666", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/faces.html" },
    { "name": "Nika Shakarami", "role": "16-year-old protester killed during 2022 uprising; UN found killing was by Iranian security forces.", "wikidata": "Q114559380", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/faces.html" },
    { "name": "Sarina Esmailzadeh", "role": "16-year-old protester killed during 2022 uprising.", "wikidata": "Q114559395", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/faces.html" },
    { "name": "Toomaj Salehi", "role": "Iranian rapper sentenced to death (commuted) for songs supporting protests.", "wikidata": "Q60746467", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/faces.html" },
    { "name": "Narges Mohammadi", "role": "Iranian human-rights defender; 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; repeatedly imprisoned in Evin.", "wikidata": "Q4324209", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/opposition.html" },
    { "name": "Masih Alinejad", "role": "Iranian-American journalist and women's-rights activist; target of multiple IRGC assassination plots on US soil.", "wikidata": "Q11920297", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/opposition.html" },
    { "name": "Reza Pahlavi", "role": "Crown Prince in exile; secular opposition figure.", "wikidata": "Q57952", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/opposition.html" },
    { "name": "Shirin Ebadi", "role": "Iranian lawyer; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.", "wikidata": "Q189112", "page": "https://iranholocaust.org/opposition.html" },
    { "name": "Ali Khamenei", "role": "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989.", "wikidata": "Q11608" },
    { "name": "Ruhollah Khomeini", "role": "Founder of the Islamic Republic (1979–1989).", "wikidata": "Q1394" }
  ],
  "organizations": [
    { "name": "Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC / Sepah)", "wikidata": "Q207620" },
    { "name": "Basij Resistance Force", "wikidata": "Q1322405" },
    { "name": "Guidance Patrol (morality police, Gasht-e Ershad)", "wikidata": "Q5614571" },
    { "name": "Ministry of Intelligence (VAJA / MOIS)", "wikidata": "Q1426376" },
    { "name": "Iran Human Rights (IHR)", "url": "https://iranhr.net", "wikidata": "Q105835237" },
    { "name": "HRANA — Human Rights Activists News Agency", "url": "https://www.hra-news.org", "wikidata": "Q5928060" },
    { "name": "Amnesty International", "wikidata": "Q42970" },
    { "name": "Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)", "wikidata": "Q2331974" }
  ],
  "places": [
    { "name": "Evin Prison, Tehran", "wikidata": "Q1378439" },
    { "name": "Rasht", "wikidata": "Q170026", "note": "Site of the deadliest single-night massacre of 2026 uprising (9 Jan 2026)." },
    { "name": "Zahedan", "wikidata": "Q193598", "note": "Bloody Friday, 30 Sept 2022 — 96 killed in a single day." },
    { "name": "Mahabad", "wikidata": "Q210055" },
    { "name": "Sanandaj", "wikidata": "Q210068" }
  ],
  "events": [
    { "name": "1979 Islamic Revolution", "wikidata": "Q170121", "date": "1979" },
    { "name": "1988 mass executions of Iranian political prisoners", "wikidata": "Q3402063", "date": "1988-07/1988-09" },
    { "name": "2009 Iranian Green Movement", "wikidata": "Q1186285", "date": "2009" },
    { "name": "2019 Bloody November (Aban) protests", "wikidata": "Q70343929", "date": "2019-11" },
    { "name": "Mahsa Amini protests (Woman, Life, Freedom)", "wikidata": "Q114130293", "date": "2022-09/2023" },
    { "name": "Bloody Friday, Zahedan", "date": "2022-09-30" },
    { "name": "2026 Crimson Winter uprising", "date": "2025-12/2026-02" },
    { "name": "The Two Nights (Rasht massacre)", "date": "2026-01-08/2026-01-09" }
  ]
}