Yes, thousands of Iranian Marxists, communists, and other leftists were killed by the Islamist regime established after the 1979 revolution, particularly in the early 1980s and during the major 1988 mass executions.
Yes, Marxists and other leftists actively joined and supported the 1979 Iranian Revolution against the Shah, forming part of a broad opposition coalition that included Islamists, liberals, nationalists, and others
