Vadi-e Rahmat

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Vadi-e Rahmat in winter

Vadi-e Rahmat (Benefaction Valley) is the main cemetery of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran. Located in the southeastern part of the city, it is served by a road line which connects it to the southern highway of Tabriz. Many Iranian soldiers from Tabriz who died in the Iran–Iraq War are buried there.

Notable burials[edit]

  • Abolhassan Eqbali Azar (fa) (1863–1971) – singer
  • Kazem Saadati (fa) (1940–1971) – Marxist activist
  • Abdolali Karang (fa) (1923–1979) – writer
  • Jafar Khamenei (ru) (1887–1983) – political activist
  • Morteza Yaghchian (fa) (1956–1983) – member of IRGC
  • Salamullah Javid (1900–1986) – politician
  • Mahmoud Farnam (fa) (1871–1993) – musician
  • Ali Bakhshayesh (fa) (1916–1998) – singer
  • Abdollah Vaez (fa) (1926–2000) – scholar
  • Mohammad-Ali Erteghaei (fa) (d. 2002) – calligrapher
  • Ebrahim Bakht-Sholouhi (fa) (1941–2006) – calligrapher
  • Samad Sardarinia (fa) (1947–2008) – scholar
  • Jamal Torabi (fa) (1925–2009) – numismatist
  • Asghar Roufegar (fa) (1923–2010) – artist
  • Manouchehr Mortazavi (fa) (1929–2010) – scholar
  • Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi (1924–2011) – cleric
  • Saleh Hosseini (fa) (1945–2011) – poet
  • Aalaeddin Melmasi (cz) (1952–2011) – photographer
  • Bahman Sarkarati (fa) (1937–2013) – linguist
  • Mohammad Jarrahi (fa) (d. 2014) – union activist
  • Mohammad-Hossein Mobin (fa) (1927–2015) – writer
  • Shahrokh Zamani (1964–2015) – union activist
  • Imran Heidari (fa) (1956–2018) – singer
  • Behrouz Rahbar (1945–2019) – cyclist
  • Aylar Haghi (1999–2022) – protester
  • Ali Tabrizli - poet, writer, publisher.