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    Behesht-e Zahra (Persian: بهشت زهرا, lit. The Paradise of Zahra, from Fatima az-Zahra) is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of...
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    a speech at the Mehrabad International Airport, he traveled to the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, where many people who were killed during the revolution were...
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  • Behesht Zahra Expressway is an expressway in southern Tehran. It connects Tehran to Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery....
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    Ruhollah Khomeini (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    human gatherings in history. In Iran, his gold-domed tomb in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahrāʾ cemetery has become a shrine for his adherents, and he is legally considered...
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    Force. He died with his wife Zahra Moheb Shahedin in 2001 in a car accident near Tehran. He is buried in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in the south of Tehran...
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    mourning. Khomeini was given a state funeral and buried at the Behesht-e Zahra (The Paradise of Zahra) cemetery in south Tehran. It was estimated that around...
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  • Northern Behesht-e-Zahra Highway (Persian: بزرگراه شمالی بهشت زهرا) is an expressway in northern part of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery connecting Tehran-Qom...
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    Hadidchi. The mausoleum is located to the south of Tehran in the Behesht-e Zahra (Paradise of Zahra) cemetery. Construction commenced in 1989 following Khomeini's...
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    Khadijeh Saqafi (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    Saqafi was buried next to her husband and son at his mausoleum in Behesht-e Zahra. "Iranians mourn Khomeini's widow". BBC News. 22 March 2009. Archived...
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    Esmat Dowlatshahi (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    on 16 June 1980. She died on 25 July 1995. She was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, Tehran. Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer, eds. (2007). "Esmat...
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  • British Columbia, Canada Al-Zahra Mosque, Sydney, Australia Behesht-e Zahra, cemetery in Tehran, Iran Ennejma Ezzahra ("Star of Zahra"), palace at Sidi Bou...
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    Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign had erected a monument, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in Tehran, to commemorate the 1983 bombings and its "martyrs"...
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    Mohammad-Ali Rajai (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    by political rivals within Rajai's political party. He is buried in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery. Rajai's political programs were based on a form of constitutional...
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    Forouzan (category Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra)
    Parizad 1973: Nakhoda - Darya 1975: Gharar-e bozorg - Shirin 1976: Khodahafez koochooloo 1977: The Cycle - Zahra 1977: Back and Dagger - Pari (final film...
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  • Abbas Katouzian (category Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra)
    Abbas Katouzian (1923 – April 12, 2008) was an Iranian painter and artist. Born in Tehran, Katouzian studied art history during his childhood and chose...
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    Yadegar-e-Emam Expressway Azadegan Expressway Ayatollah Kashani Expressway Behesht-e Zahra Expressway Doran Expressway Kazemi Expressway Northern Behesht-e Zahra...
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    Hamideh Kheirabadi (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    been given as brain stroke. Ms Kheirābādi was buried in Section 66 of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran, on Tuesday 20 April 2010. A very extensive filmography...
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    Kazemi Expressway and Azadegan Expressway in Tehran. It then passes Behesht-e Zahra, Imam Khomeini Int'l, Qom, Kashan, Natanz, Shahinshahr, Najafabad and...
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    an attack "on the apostate Rushdie". There is a shrine in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery for Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh that says he was "Martyred in London...
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    22 August in Vahdat Hall, and her body was buried at Behesht-e Zahra. The Broken Lute [Seh-tar-e Shekasteh, 1951] Footprint [Ja-ye Pa, 1954] Chandelier...
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  • Ahmad Bourghani (category Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra)
    Ahmad Bourghani Farahani (Persian: احمد بورقانی فراهانی; January 2, 1960 – February 2, 2008) was an Iranian reformist politician, journalist, writer and...
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  • Zahra's Paradise (Persian: بهشت زهرا Behesht-e Zahra) is a webcomic and graphic novel by Amir Soltani and Khalil set in modern Iran. It has been described...
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  • Abdolbaghi Darvish (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    Abdolbaghi Darvish (Persian: عبدالباقی درویش; 26 April 1948 – 20 February 1986) was an Iranian Air Force pilot who served during the Iran–Iraq War. He...
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    Mostafa Chamran (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    the related details have remained unclear. Chamran was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran. Ayatullah Khomeini publicly proclaimed Chamran...
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    Abdolrahman Faramarzi (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    Faramarzi co-founded Kayhan newspaper. Faramarzi was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran. Faramarzi was also the founder of the short-lived...
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  • regime" (Israel). A symbolic tomb was erected for Mughniyeh in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery of Tehran. Later the Iranian government named a street in...
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    Gholam-Hossein Naghshineh (category Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra)
    playing "Uncle" in My Uncle Napoleon ("Dā'i Jān Napoleon)". Photograph of Gholam-Hossein Naghshineh Photograph of Gholam-Hossein Naghshineh's grave v t e...
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  • pronounced dead at Shari'ati hospital, Agha-Soltan was buried at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran; she was denied a proper funeral by government...
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    Jahangir Forouhar (category Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra)
    Dash Akol (1971) The Suitor (1972) Sattar Khan (1972) Mozaffar (1974) Soltan-e Sahebgharan (1974, TV series) The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries (1974)...
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    Mohammad Beheshti (category Burials at Behesht-e Zahra)
    played a particularly important role in promoting the principle of velayat-e faqih as the basis for the new constitution. In the first post-revolutionary...
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