Kermanshah park shelter bombing

The bombing of Kermanshah's park shelter (in Persian: بمباران پناهگاه پارک کرمانشاه) was carried out by the army of Ba'athist Iraq against the shelter of "Shirin park of Kermanshah", on 16 March 1988.

At the mentioned bombing, Iraq also bombed the other localities of the city as well as the shelter of Shirin Park by air-to-ground missile; but bombing "Shirin Park Shelter" is considered as the most critical locality. As a result of the mentioned attack(s), 76 persons --mostly women/children-- who were in the shelter, were killed and more than 200 persons were injured.

The government of Iran accuses the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) of collaborating in this bombing and writes: "Survivors of the incident talked about the presence of unknown people who suspiciously came to the shelter moments before the bombing and then left. A number of eyewitnesses reported the presence of a man with plastered hands and a young woman with a large wristwatch in the shelter". After carrying out the investigation and then the official announcement of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), it was revealed that it was the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) that had targeted the Shirin Park shelter to the Ba'ath regime airforce, and in their own words, "dozens of military forces and enemies of the people were killed in the bombing of Kermanshah." The MEK fighters had given this shelter to the Baathist planes so precisely that the missile had entered the shelter through the jet fan, which is the only entrance.

There is a book by the name of "Panahgah-e Bi-Panah" (Shelterless Shelter) (Persian: پناهگاه بی پناه), written by Mahnaz Fattahi;  which has highlighted the survivors memories of the Kermanshah's Shirin park shelter bombing.