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What happened to the Jews in Iran

38 events, 722 BC to 2020 AD

Regions in Iran

Cities, towns and sites in Iran

Timeline

8th century BC

  1. 722 BC Assyrian deportation of Israelites to the cities of the Medes · Kingdom of Israel, Israel and Palestinian territories and elsewhere

4th century

  1. 313 AD Persecution of the Jews mentioned for 313 · Iran
  2. 351 AD Destruction of Jewish property in Persia · Iran

5th century

  1. c. 457–484 AD Jewish children raised as fire-worshipers under Perozes · Isfahan, Iran
  2. c. 457–484 AD Perozes executes half the Jews of Ispahan · Isfahan, Iran
  3. c. 459–486 AD Massacre of Jews of Ispahan under Firuz · Isfahan, Iran
  4. 472 AD Firuz executes half of Isfahan's Jews · Isfahan, Iran

6th century

  1. 578–590 AD Persecution of Jews under Ormazd IV · Iran

7th century

  1. 634 AD Persecutions begin after Arab conquest of Hamadan · Hamadan, Iran

14th century

  1. 1318 AD Execution of Rashid al-Dawlah on accusation of plotting to murder the Ilkhan · Iran

15th century

  1. 1493–1497 AD Ghetto established in Persia · Iran

16th century

  1. 1501 AD Persecutions and forced conversions of Hamadan Jews under the Safavids · Hamadan, Iran
  2. c. 1600–1699 AD Persecution and forced conversion under Shah Abbas I and II · Isfahan, Iran

17th century

  1. 1639–1666 AD Forced conversion or expulsion of Hamadan Jews under Abbas II · Hamadan, Iran
  2. 1656 AD Expulsion of Jews from Isfahan · Isfahan, Iran
  3. 1657–1662 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Iran · Iran

18th century

  1. 1725 AD Massacre of Jews by Mahmud Shah · Hamadan, Iran
  2. 1735–1747 AD Massacre ordered by Nadir Shah · Hamadan, Iran
  3. 1798–1834 AD Nomad raids on the Jewish quarter of Ispahan under Fath Ali Shah · Isfahan, Iran

19th century

  1. 1801 AD Pogrom against the Jews of Miyandoab after blood libel · Miyandoab, Iran
  2. 1830 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Shiraz · Shiraz, Iran
  3. 1839 AD Allahdad · Mashhad, Iran
  4. c. 1850 AD Forced conversion of Shiraz Jews to Islam · Shiraz, Iran
  5. 1860 AD Accusation against Jews in Hamadan · Hamadan, Iran
  6. 1863 AD Violence against Jews in Hamadan · Hamadan, Iran
  7. 1866 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Barforush · Babol (Barforush), Iran
  8. 1892 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Hamadan · Hamadan, Iran
  9. 1892 AD Forced conversion of Hamadan Jewish elite to Islam · Hamadan, Iran
  10. 1892 AD Pogrom in the Jewish quarter of Shiraz (1892) · Shiraz, Iran
  11. 1897 AD Pogrom in the Jewish quarter of Shiraz (1897) · Shiraz, Iran
  12. 1897 AD Riot against the Jews of Teheran · Tehran, Iran

20th century

  1. 1909 AD Pogrom against the Jews of Kermanshah · Kermanshah, Iran
  2. 1910 AD 1910 Shiraz blood libel · Shiraz, Iran
  3. 1926–1931 AD Trial and execution of Shmuel Haim · Iran
  4. 1999 AD 1999 arrest of Iranian Jews · Iran
  5. 2000–2003 AD Arrest and trial of 13 Jews in Shiraz on false spying charges · Shiraz, Iran

21st century

  1. 2006 AD International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust · Tehran, Iran
  2. 2020 AD Destruction of Jewish property in Hamadan, Iran · Hamadan, Iran

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