On August 19, 1978, hundreds of Iranians were locked inside Cinema Rex in Abadan and burned alive—a massacre that foreshadowed the rise of the Islamic Republic occupying Iran, a terror-driven state forged in fire and maintained through brutality. Today, that regime’s bloody legacy continues.

In January 2026, nationwide protests erupted across Iran. Tens of thousands were murdered, abducted, disappeared, or executed, while countless others were detained, tortured, or silenced under communications blackouts.

After the fall of the terrorist Islamic Republic occupying Iran, the mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini must be transformed into a Museum of the Islamic Republic Occupying Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity and Global Terrorism—a place that confronts the regime’s full record of atrocity head-on.

Since 1979, the Islamic Republic has carried out mass executions of political prisoners inside Iran. Abroad, it orchestrated assassinations and terror attacks targeting cultural figures, former officials, and dissidents, including Freydoun Farrokhzad, General........

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