Black Friday (1978)

This article is about the 1978 Iranian protest-turned-massacre. For other events, see List of Black Fridays. For the video game based on the incident, see 1979 Revolution: Black Friday.

Black Friday
Part of the Iranian Revolution
Native nameجمعه سیاه
LocationTehran, Iran
Date8 September 1978 (IRST, UTC+3:30)
TargetProtestors
Attack type
Massacre, mass shooting
Deaths118, including:
  • 64 protestors in Jaleh Sq.
  • 30 government security forces
  • 24 other protesters elsewhere)
Injured205 wounded
PerpetratorsImperial Army of Iran

Black Friday (Persian: جمعه سیاه, romanized: Jom'e-ye Siyāh) was a mass shooting on 8 September 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 in the Solar Hijri calendar) in Pahlavi Iran, during which the Imperial Army of Iran killed 64 civilians and injured 205 in Jaleh Square (Persian: میدان ژاله, romanized: Meydān-e Zhāleh), Tehran. According to Spencer C. Tucker, 30 government security forces were also killed. The deaths were a pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution that ended any "hope for compromise" between the protest movement and the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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