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Goharshad Mosque rebellion
DateAugust 1935
Location
Goharshad Mosque, Imam Reza Shrine, Mashhad, Iran
Result Massacre of the besieged civilians
Belligerents
Shahrbani Police
Iranian Imperial Army
Locals and merchants
Commanders and leaders
Iran Mohammad Vali Asadi Shiite clergy
Casualties and losses
2 officers, 18 soldiers killed;
2 soldiers executed for disobedience, 1 committed suicide.[1]
2,000-5,000[2]
(128 dead, 200-300 wounded, 800 arrested according to a British report"[1])
Total: 151 killed

The Goharshad Mosque rebellion (Persian: شورش مسجد گوهرشاد) took place in August 1935,[3] when a backlash against the westernizing and secularist policies of Reza Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty erupted in the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran.

The incident is described as a "bloody event".[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Hovsepian-Bearce, Yvette (2015). The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran. Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 9781317605829. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  3. ^ Farrokh, Kaveh (20 December 2011). Iran at War: 1500-1988. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-78096-240-5.

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