A desert-like patch of sand and scrawny trees in the largest cemetery in Iran’s capital has been the final resting place for decades for some of the thousands killed in the mass executions that followed Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Now, Lot 41 at the sprawling Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran is becoming a parking lot, with their remains likely beneath asphalt.
Images from Planet Labs PBC show the parking lot being laid over the site, where opponents of Iran’s nascent theocracy and others were rapidly buried following their executions at gunpoint or by hanging.
This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows how Iran officials paved over Lot 41, where some of those executed in the chaos after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution were buried.
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