Iran Holocaust

1980

1980 in Iran: 2 documented events and 1 named victim of state repression.

Documented events
2
Named victims
1

A year-by-year record of repression in Iran. Below are the events documented for 1980, followed by the people whose deaths that year are named in our database.

1980-05-08 — Farrokhroo Parsa executed. Iran's first woman cabinet minister is shot by firing squad, wrapped in a sack, for the crime of expanding girls' education.

1980-09-22 — Iran–Iraq War begins. Iraq invades. Eight years of war leave up to a million dead and give the regime cover for mass domestic repression.

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