1998

1998 in Iran: 1 documented event and 0 named victims of state repression.

Documented events: 1
Named victims: 0

A year-by-year record of repression in Iran. Below are the events documented for 1998, followed by the people whose deaths that year are named in our database.

1998-11-01 — Chain murders of dissidents. Ministry of Intelligence agents assassinate a series of dissident writers and intellectuals — Dariush Forouhar, Mohammad Mokhtari, Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh — in a wave later admitted by the ministry itself.

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