Behesht-e Sakineh () is a major cemetery located in Iran near the city of Karaj. It was established in 1976.
Notable burials Abolfazl Zanjani (fa) (1899–1992) – politician Mohammad Zohari (1926–1995) – writer Ghlamreza Dadbeh (fa) (1920–2001) – musician Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006) – writer Bahman Safvat (fa) (1940–2006) – journalist Amir-Hossein Heshmat-Saran (1960–2009) – political activist Shahram Farajzadeh (fa) (1974–2009) – protester Shapour Yasemi (fa) (1922–2011) – film director Massoumeh Seyhoun (1934–2010) – painter Mohsen Pezeshkpour (1928–2011) – leader of Pan-Iranist Party Sahereh Matin (fa) (1935–2011) – actress 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 Abolhassan Jalili (fa) (1926–2015) – scholar Akbar Vares (fa) (1945–2015) – actor Beitollah Abbaspour (fa) (1980–2015) – athletic Bahman Zarrinpour (fa) (1941–2016) – actor Cyrus Qahramani (fa) (1938–2017) – actor Ali-Ashraf Darvishian (1941–2017) – scholar Sima Hajikhani (Negar) (fa) (1955–2018) – actress Nasser Rezaei (fa) (1983–2019) – protester 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 (1929–2020) – writer Nader Mokhtari (fa) (1985–2020) – protester Ebrahim Qanbari-Mehr (1928–2022) – musician Rafat Hashempour (1931–2022) – voice actress Manouchehr Esmaeili (1939–2022) – voice actor Siavash Shakeri (fa) (1939–2022) – film director Karim Bavi (1964–2022) – football player Hadis Najafi (2000–2022) – protester Parsa Rezadoust (fa) (2003–2022) – protester Nima Nuri (fa) (2004–2022) – protester Sarina Esmailzadeh (2006–2022) – protester Morteza Poursamadi (1952–2023) – cinematographer Hossein Shahabi (1967–2023) – film director Sepideh Farhan (fa) (1991–2023) – political activist Bahareh Lellahi (fa) (1984–2024) – film director Cysrus Parham (fa) (1929–2025) – art critic Homayoun Ershadi (1947–2025) – actor Ali Babachahi (1942–2026) – writer
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