page_title: Casualties of the Iranian Revolution
section_title: Casualties of the monarchy
hierarchical_section_title: Casualties of the Iranian Revolution / Casualties of the monarchy
caption_attribution_description: English: Victims of "Black Friday" of Iran (Sep 8, 1978) فارسی: قربانیان "جمعه سیاه" ایران (هفدهم شهریور هزار و سیصد و پنجاه و هفت)
context_page_description: Observers differ on how many people died during the Iranian Revolution. The number of casualties during the revolution is either close to 60,000, or around 2,000, depending on whether the estimates used are those of Islamic government or from historians in Western countries. The number of protesters and political prisoners killed by the new theocratic republic after the fall of the Shah is estimated by human rights groups to be several thousand.
context_section_description: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution, stated that "60,000 men, women and children were martyred by the Shah's regime," and this number appears in the constitution of the Islamic Republic.
  More recently, tabulation by Emadeddin Baghi, a researcher at the Martyrs Foundation (Bonyad Shahid) found that between 1963 and 1979 there were 3164 dead among the anti-Shah movement. In Iran, the Martyrs Foundation, established after the revolution to compensate the survivors of fallen revolutionaries, could identify only 744 dead in Tehran, where the majority of the casualties were supposed to have occurred. The coroner's office and Tehran's main cemetery, Behesht-e Zahra, counted 895 and 768 dead, respectively.
  According to author Charles Kurzman "the shah frequently told foreign emissaries that he was unwilling to massacre his subjects in order to save his throne".
caption: Killed protesters in Black Friday
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