Behesht-e Sakineh (Persian: بهشت سکینه) is a major cemetery located in Iran near the city of Karaj.^[1] It is established in 1976.

Notable burials

• Abolfazl Zanjani (fa) (1899–1992) – politician
• Mohammad Zohari (1926–1995) – writer
• Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006) – writer
• Bahman Safvat (fa) (1940–2006) – journalist
• Amir-Hossein Heshmat-Saran (1960–2009) – political activist
• Shapour Yasemi (fa) (1922–2011) – film director
• Massoumeh Seyhoun (1934–2010) – painter
• Mohsen Pezeshkpour (1928–2011) – leader of Pan-Iranist Party
• 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
• Beitollah Abbaspour (fa) (1980–2015) – athletic
• Cyrus Qahramani (fa) (1938–2017) – actor
• Ali-Ashraf Darvishian (1941–2017) – scholar
• Sima Hajikhani (Negar) (fa) (1955–2018) – actress
• 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 (fa) (1929–2020) – writer
• Nader Mokhtari (fa) (1985–2020) – protester
• Ebrahim Qanbari-Mehr (1928–2022) – musician
• Manouchehr Esmaeili (1939–2022) – sound actor
• Karim Bavi (1964–2022) – football player
• Hadis Najafi (fa) (2000–2022) – protester
• Parsa Rezadoust (fa) (2003–2022) – protester
• Nima Nuri (fa) (2004–2022) – protester
• Sarina Esmailzadeh (fa) (2006–2022) – protester
• Morteza Poursamadi (1952–2023) – cinematographer
• Hossein Shahabi (1967–2023) – film director
• Sepideh Farhan (fa) (1991–2023) – political activist

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