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'''Martyrs' Square''' is a [[city square]] in [[Tehran]], Iran.[{{cite news |last1=Engber |first1=Daniel |title=What’s With All the Martyrs’ Squares? |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/03/what-s-with-all-the-martyrs-squares.html |access-date=April 23, 2026 |work=Slate |date=March 9, 2005}}] It was previously known as Jaleh Square, and renamed in memory of the victims (or [[martyr]]s) of the [[Black Friday (1978)|1978 Black Friday]] massacre under Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]].[{{cite news |last1=Godsell |first1=Geoffrey |title=President Bani-Sadr, new premier locked in struggle for power in Iran |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0910/091047.html |access-date=April 23, 2026 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=September 10, 1989|quote=It was the second anniversary of the violence in Tehran's Martyrs' (formerly Jaleh) Square when many anti-Shah demonstrators fell to the gunfire of the Shah's security forces.}}][{{cite book |last1=Hassnain |first1=Fida Muhammad|authorlink=Fida Muhammad Hassnain |title=The Islamic Revolution in Iran |date=1989 |publisher=Rima Publishing House |location=New Delhi, India |isbn=2008 |page=22}}] |
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'''Martyrs' Square''' is a [[city square]] in [[Tehran]], Iran.[{{cite news |last1=Engber |first1=Daniel |title=What’s With All the Martyrs’ Squares? |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/03/what-s-with-all-the-martyrs-squares.html |access-date=April 23, 2026 |work=Slate |date=March 9, 2005}}] It was previously known as Jaleh Square, and renamed in memory of the victims (or [[martyr]]s) of the [[Black Friday (1978)|1978 Black Friday]] massacre under Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]].[{{cite news |last1=Godsell |first1=Geoffrey |title=President Bani-Sadr, new premier locked in struggle for power in Iran |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0910/091047.html |access-date=April 23, 2026 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=September 10, 1989|quote=It was the second anniversary of the violence in Tehran's Martyrs' (formerly Jaleh) Square when many anti-Shah demonstrators fell to the gunfire of the Shah's security forces.}}][{{cite book |last1=Hassnain |first1=Fida Muhammad|authorlink=Fida Muhammad Hassnain |title=The Islamic Revolution in Iran |date=1989 |publisher=Rima Publishing House |location=New Delhi, India |isbn=2008 |page=22|oclc=20264732 }}] |
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