Behesht-e Sakineh



Behesht-e Sakineh is a major cemetery located in Iran near the city of Karaj. It is established in 1976.

Notable burials

 * Abolfazl Zanjani (fa) (1899–1992) – politician
 * Mohammad Zohari (1926–1995) – writer
 * Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006) – writer
 * Bahman Safvat (fa) (1940–2006) – journalist
 * Amir-Hossein Heshmat-Saran (1960–2009) – political activist
 * Shapour Yasemi (fa) (1922–2011) – film director
 * Massoumeh Seyhoun (1934–2010) – painter
 * Mohsen Pezeshkpour (1928–2011) – leader of Pan-Iranist Party
 * Fahimeh Rastkar (1934–2012) – actress
 * Iraj Ghaderi (1934–2012) – actor
 * Behrouz Servatian (1937–2012) – scholar
 * Asghar Elahi (fa) (1944–2012) – writer
 * Dariush Safvat (1928–2013) – musician
 * Mohsen Amiraslani (1977–2014) – psychoanalyst
 * Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi (1923–2015) – poet
 * Beitollah Abbaspour (fa) (1980–2015) – athletic
 * Cyrus Qahramani (fa) (1938–2017) – actor
 * Ali-Ashraf Darvishian (1941–2017) – scholar
 * Sima Hajikhani (Negar) (fa) (1955–2018) – actress
 * Amir-Hossein Kabiri (fa) (1987–2019) – protester
 * Vahid Damvar (fa) (1989–2019) – protester
 * Ebrahim Ketabdar (fa) (1990–2019) – protester
 * Pouya Bakhtiari (1992–2019) – protester
 * Meysam Ahmadi (fa) (1992–2019) – protester
 * Azadeh Zarbi (fa) (1993–2019) – protester
 * Najaf Daryabandari (fa) (1929–2020) – writer
 * Nader Mokhtari (fa) (1985–2020) – protester
 * Ebrahim Qanbari-Mehr (1928–2022) – musician
 * Manouchehr Esmaeili (1939–2022) – sound actor
 * Karim Bavi (1964–2022) – football player
 * Hadis Najafi (fa) (2000–2022) – protester
 * Parsa Rezadoust (fa) (2003–2022) – protester
 * Nima Nuri (fa) (2004–2022) – protester
 * Sarina Esmailzadeh (fa) (2006–2022) – protester
 * Morteza Poursamadi (1952–2023) – cinematographer
 * Hossein Shahabi (1967–2023) – film director
 * Sepideh Farhan (fa) (1991–2023) – political activist