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Iran is paving over a mass grave containing thousands of 1979 revolution victims, converting the cemetery site into a parking lot.

Satellite images show construction at Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, where up to 7,000 executed opponents of Iran’s theocracy are buried.

The destruction continues Iran’s pattern of erasing evidence of past atrocities to avoid accountability, human rights experts say.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 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 sp

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