20case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026
Casepin holds 20 case files in Iran. By legal status, 10 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 2 marked ongoing and 7 marked solved.
SOLVEDListenIRGC-run guesthouse, Tehran, Iran · 2024
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed in Tehran on 31 July 2024 in an attack Iranian officials attributed to Israel, which Israel later publicly confirmed carrying out.
Credit: Photographer not creditedPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenU.S. Embassy, Tehran, Iran · 1979
In November 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held American diplomats and staff hostage for 444 days, demanding the return of the exiled Shah, in a crisis that reshaped U.S.-Iran relations and U.S. domestic politics.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenPrime Minister's Office, Tehran, Iran · 1981
A bomb detonated in the office of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar on 30 August 1981, killing Bahonar, President Mohammad-Ali Rajai, and several other officials, weeks after a separate bombing killed dozens of senior Iranian leaders.
COLDListenTehran, Iran · 1988
Between 1988 and 1998, more than 80 Iranian writers, translators, political activists and ordinary citizens critical of the Islamic Republic were killed or disappeared in a pattern of car crashes, stabbings, staged robberies and lethal injections, later attributed to rogue elements within Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
Credit: Iahsan at English WikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenImam Reza shrine, Mashhad, Iran · 1994
A bomb exploded in the women's prayer hall of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, on 20 June 1994 during Ashura observances, killing at least 25 people and injuring at least 70.
UNSOLVEDListenKargar Avenue, Tehran, Iran · 2009
Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old Iranian philosophy student, was fatally shot in the chest in Tehran on 20 June 2009 while observing protests against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Video of her death spread worldwide and became a rallying symbol for the opposition; no one has been convicted for her killing.
UNSOLVEDListenKhash–Zahedan road (Road 95), Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran · 2019
A suicide car bombing on the Khash–Zahedan road in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan Province killed at least 27 Revolutionary Guards and wounded 13 on February 13, 2019, in one of Iran's deadliest attacks in years, claimed by the Salafi jihadist group Jaish al-Adl.
Credit: خودمCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenZabol-Zahedan road near Tasooki police station, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran · 2006
On March 16, 2006, gunmen from the Baloch militant group Jundallah, disguised as police, stopped vehicles on the Zabol-Zahedan road near Tasooki police station and killed 22 people, executing Shia male passengers after separating them from other travelers.
SOLVEDListenIranian Parliament building and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran, Iran · 2017
On 7 June 2017, ISIL-affiliated attackers carried out coordinated attacks on Iran's Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, killing 17 civilians and wounding dozens; six assailants were killed and one was captured alive. Iran's Intelligence Ministry publicly identified five of them by name.
Credit: JavvidanCC BY 4.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenMahan, Kerman Province, Iran · 2020
Zoroastrian priest Arash Kasravi and two associates were found dead in Mahan, Kerman, Iran, in July 2020; Iranian authorities called it a financially motivated triple homicide but never released further findings, and the case remains unsolved as of 2025.
The files run from 1979 to 2025. The 2020s hold the most, with 7 files. The oldest is Iran Hostage Crisis, from 1979.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (7), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and mass shooting cases (2).
1 file of the 20 has coverage attached: 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries. The most covered is Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with 6 items to watch or hear.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Marine SGT John D. McKeel Jr at Bacchus Ball New Orleans 1981 — Credit: Photographer not creditedPublic domainSource
Masoud Keshmiri — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
RezaShrine — Credit: Iahsan at English WikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0Source
تاسوکی — Credit: خودمCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Kian Pirfalak3.jpg — Credit: HosseinronaghiCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Arash Kasravi.png — Credit: JavvidanCC BY 4.0Source
20. By status: 10 unsolved, 1 cold, 2 ongoing and 7 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Iran Hostage Crisis, from 1979. Open the file
Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 16, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
