Mahshahr Massacre · Koshtar-e Mahshahr

Culture of origin: Arab · Historical

Holiday sources: Iran · Iranian Arab

In the fuel-price protests of November 2019, protesters took control of much of Mahshahr, a port city of Arab majority in Khuzestan. The Revolutionary Guards moved in, shot protesters in the suburb of Shahrak Chamran, then encircled those who had fled into a nearby marsh and fired on them with truck-mounted machine guns. The New York Times put the dead at 40 to 100; a Khuzestan official told IranWire that 148 people were killed in five days of protests in the city.