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Black Friday (Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized: Jom'e-ye Siyāh) is the name given to an incident occurring on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Iranian calendar) in Iran, [9] in which 64, [1] or at least 100 [10] [11] people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square (Persian: میدان ژاله, romanized: Meydān-e Jāleh) in Tehran.
The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [ 4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
125, [1] 262 [2] 1978 Tabriz protests refers to the events that occurred on 18 February 1978, 40 days after the 1978 Qom protests, . Several clerics in Qom and other major cities across Iran had announced the 40th-day commemoration for those killed during the Qom incidents. Also, announcements were published in universities a few days before ...
9 January – 1978 Qom protest. 18 February – 1978 Tabriz protests. 21 June – 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown. 8 September – Black Friday, massacre by Iranian army provoked 88 deaths. 16 September – The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affected central Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ). At least 15,000 people were killed.
September 8: dubbed "Black Friday" Shah declares martial law in response to protests against Pahlavi dynasty. The military of Iran use force including tanks and helicopters to break up the largely peaceful demonstrators. About 88 demonstrators (including three women) are killed.
Street clashes between protesters and Shah's regime in Tehran Killed protesters by Shah's regime in Tehran Iranian protesters on 5 June 1963 Killed protesters in Black Friday The Preamble of the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaks of the Islamic Revolution being "watered by the blood of more than 60,000 martyrs and 100,000 ...
Black September ( Arabic: أيلول الأسود Aylūl al-ʾAswad ), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, [9] was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970, though certain ...
The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement this week that will eventually see five detained Americans in Iran and an unknown number of Iranians imprisoned in the U.S. released from ...