- Khavaran cemetery
Khavaran cemetery is a cemetery located in South East of
Tehran . It was used mainly as a graveyard for the religious minorities such asHindus ,Christians , and recently Bahá'ís. However it was used as amass grave site containing thousands of corpses from the1988 executions of Iranian prisoners by the government of Iran. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/story/2005/09/050902_mf_cemetery.shtml BBCPersian.com report] Retrieved on 28-1-2007.]Trivia
Islamic Republic supporters call this cemetery "لعنتآباد" (lanat-abad, the damned place)Fact|date=April 2007.
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1988 executions of Iranian prisoners
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