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.
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.
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.
UNSOLVEDListenTehran, Iran · 1999
Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, was fatally shot outside his Tehran home on 10 April 1999 by an assailant disguised as a street sweeper; the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) claimed responsibility.
UNSOLVEDListenIslamic Republican Party headquarters, Tehran, Iran · 1981
A bomb detonated at the Islamic Republican Party headquarters in Tehran on 28 June 1981, killing 74 senior Iranian officials including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, during a period of intense political violence following the Iranian Revolution.
The files run from 1979 to 2024. The 1980s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Iran Hostage Crisis, from 1979.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (3), kidnapping and abduction cases (1) and mass shooting cases (1).
1 file of the 9 has coverage attached: 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries. The most covered is Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with 6 items to watch or hear.
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Marine SGT John D. McKeel Jr at Bacchus Ball New Orleans 1981 — Credit: Photographer not creditedPublic domainSource
Masoud Keshmiri — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
9. By status: 5 unsolved, 1 cold and 3 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
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