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Stamps of the Fallen (Part 2): List of Figures

Click on the images to see each reproduction in high resolution. All stamps are taken from the personal collection of Adam Gaiser. “Scott #” refers to the stamp’s assigned number in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue.

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Figure 20
Iran, 2002, souvenir sheet, 400 riyals, stamp reproducing Maḥmūd Farshchiyān’s painting “The Evening of Ashura” (Scott #2838).

Figure 21
Iran, 1996, commemorative stamp, 200 riyals, “Captives and Missing Day” (Scott #2684).

Figure 22
Iran, 1987, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, “Revolutionary Guards Day” (Imām Ḥusayn’s birthday) (Scott #2263).

Figure 23
Iran, 1994, commemorative stamp, 80 riyals, “Day of Invalids” (Scott #2610).

Figure 24
Iran, 1985, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, “Women’s Day” (Scott #2179).

Figure 25
Iran, 1986, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, “Women’s Day” (Scott #2211).

Figure 26
Iran, 1992, commemorative stamp, 70 riyals, “Women’s Day” (Scott #2548).

Figure 27
Iran, 1987, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, “Nurses’ Day” (Ḥaẓrat Zaynab’s birthday) (Scott #2252).

Figure 28
Iran, 1985, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, Ghorshad Mosque Uprising, 50th Anniversary (Scott #2193).

Figure 29
Iran, 1979, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, Islamic Revolution (Scott #2002).

Figure 30
Iran, 1983, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, 20th anniversary of the 15th of Khordād, 1963 uprising (Scott #2120).

Figure 31
Iran, 1987, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, 24th anniversary of the 15th of Khordād, 1963 uprising (Scott #2274).

Figure 32
Iran, 1988, commemorative stamp, 25 riyals, “Divine Day of 17 Shahrivār, 10th Anniv.” (Scott #2338).

Figure 33
Iran, 1982, commemorative stamp, 28 riyals, 19th anniversary of the 1963 Islamic uprising (Scott #2108).

Figure 34
Iran, 1985, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, 1st anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr (Scott #2184).

Figure 35
Iran, 1987, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, “Memorial to Lebanese Hizbollah Martyrs” (Scott #2262).

Figure 36
Iran, 2008, commemorative stamp, 650 riyals, “Martyr Emad Moghnie” (Scott #2949).

Figure 37
Iran, 1988, commemorative stamps, 10 riyals each, “Palestinian Uprising” (Scott #2320a-e).

Figure 38
Iran, 1980, commemorative stamp, 3 riyals, 1st anniversary of the Iranian Revolution (Scott #2047).

Figure 39
Iran, 1990, commemorative stamp, 30 riyals, 11th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Scott #2412).

Figure 40
Iran, 1995, commemorative stamp, 100 riyals, 16th anniversary of the Islamic Republic (Scott #2656).

Figure 41
Iran, 1985, commemorative stamps, 5 riyals each, 5th anniversary of the “Sacred Defense” (Scott #2197a-d).

Figure 42
Iran, 1988, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, 25th anniversary of the June 5th uprising (Scott #2325).

Figure 43
Iran, 1986, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, Sulaymān Khāṭir (Sulayman Khater), 40th anniversary of martyrdom (Scott #2209).

Figure 44
Iran, 1979, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, Islamic Revolution (Scott #2019).

Figure 45a-c
Iran, 1979, commemorative stamp, 2 riyals, 3 riyals, 5 riyals, International Year of the Child (Scott #2024-2026).

Figure 46a-c
Iran, 1982, commemorative stamp, 3 riyals, 5 riyals, 20 riyals, “Islamic Revolution, 2nd Anniversary” (Scott #2066-2068).

Figure 47
Iran, 1984, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, 5th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution (Scott #2146).

Figure 48
Iran, 1984, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, ““Iran-Iraq War, 4th Anniv.” (Scott #2166).

Figure 49
Iran, 1986, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, “2000th Day of Sacred Defense” (Scott #2213).

Figure 50
Iran, 1991, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, Sacred Defense (Scott #2473).

Figure 51
Iran, 1991, commemorative stamp, 100 riyals, “Victory over Iraq”, Sacred Defense Week celebrations (Scott #2437).

Figure 52a-c
Iran, 1981, commemorative stamps, 3, 5, 10 riyals, series in memory of various martyrs (Scott #2090, 2091, 2092).

Figure 53
Iran, 1982, commemorative stamp, 10 riyal, anniversary of martyrdom of Ayatollah Bihishtī (Beheshti) (Scott #2110).

Figure 54
Iran, 1982, commemorative stamp, 50 riyals, “Martyrs of [the] Altar” stamp depicting Ayatollahs Madanī and Dastgayb (Scott #2104).

Figure 55
Iran, 1983, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, in memory of Ayatollah Muḥammad Sadūqī (Mohammad Sadoghi) (Scott #2122).

Figure 56
Iran, 1983, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, “Ayatollah Ashrafi Esphfahani, Martyr of [the] Altar” (Scott #2126).

Figure 57
Iran, 1983, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, “Mohammad Mofatteh” (Scott #2144).

Figure 58
Iran, 1983, commemorative stamp, 3 riyals, “Government Week” (Scott #2124).

Figure 59
Iran, 1984, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, in memory of the “martyrdom” of Musṭafā Khumaynī (Mostafa Khomeini) (Scott #2168).

Figure 60
Iran, 1984, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, honoring the martyr Ghāzī Ṭabā’ṭabā’ī (Ghazi Tabatabaie) (Scott #2169).

Figure 61
Iran, 1986, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, 5th anniversary of bombing at the headquarters of the Islamic Party (Scott #2229).

Figure 62
Iran, 1987, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, “Teachers’ Day” (Scott #2268).

Figure 63
Iran, 1987, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ayatullāh Sayyid Ḥasan Mudarris (Modarres) (Scott #2293).

Figure 64
Iran, 1988, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, 10th anniversary of the martyrdom of Sayyid ‘Alī Andarzgū (Andarzgou) (Scott #2336).

Figure 65
Iran, 1982, commemorative stamp, 50 riyals, Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir Ṣadr (Scott #2103).

Figure 66
Iran, 1984, commemorative stamp, 5 riyals, Shaykh Rāgieb Ḥarb (Ragheb Harb), Lebanese religious leader (Scott #2155).

Figure 67
Iran, 1984, commemorative stamp, 10 riyals, martyrdom of Sayyid Qutb (Scott #2158).

Figure 68
Iran, 1985, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of ’Izz al-Dīn al-Qassām (Ezzedin al-Qassam) (Scott #2206).

Figure 69
Iran, 1988, commemorative stamp, 20 riyals, Allāmah Balkhī (Balkhi) (Scott #2332).

Figure 70a-b
Iran, 1986, commemorative stamps, 15 riyals each, “Universal Day of [the] Child,” remembering the child war hero Ḥusayn Fahmīdah (Hossein Fahmideh) (Scott #2222, 2223).

Figure 71
Iran, 1994, commemorative stamp, 30 riyals, 15th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Muṭahharī (Scott #2630).

Figure 72
Iran, 1994, commemorative stamp, 70 riyals, Sayyid Murtażā Āvīnī, Sacred Defense Week (Scott #2635).

Figure 73
Iran, 1995, commemorative stamp, 100 riyals, M.J. Tandgūyān, oil minister (Scott #2668).

Figure 74
Iran, 1995, commemorative stamps, 50 riyals each, martyred commanders (Scott #2644-47).

Figure 75
Iran, 2000, commemorative stamps, 150 riyals each, war martyrs (Scott #2798-2801).

Figure 76
Iran, 2003, commemorative stamp, 600 riyals, government martyrs (Scott #2871).

Figure 77
Iran, 2006, commemorative stamps, 650 riyals each, ARAFE (military) martyrs (Scott #2920a-b).

Figure 78
Iran, 2008, commemorative stamp, 650 riyals, martyr Navvāb Ṣafavī (Scott #2947).

Figure 79
Iran, 2008, commemorative stamp, 650 riyals, martyr Ḥāj Aḥmad Mutavassiliyān (Motavessilian) (Scott #2963).

Figure 80
Iran, 2008, commemorative stamp, 650 riyals, martyr M.R. Pūrkiyān (Pourkian) (Scott #2972).

Figure 81
Iran, 2009, commemorative stamp, 650 riyals, “Dokouhe Stars” (Scott #2979).

Figure 82
Iran, 2010, commemorative stamp, 2000 riyals, “In Memory of Martyrs of Holy Defense” (Scott #3025).

Figure 83
Iran, 2010, commemorative stamp, 1200 riyals, 30th anniversary the martyrdom of (Dr.) Ayatollah Muḥammad Mufattiḥ (Mofatteh) (Scott #3012).

Figure 84
Iran, 2012, customized stamp, 2200 riyals, martyred oil minister M. J. Tandgūyān (Scott #3029M).

Figure 85
Iran, 2012, souvenir sheet, 2200 riyals each, “Dedication and Sacrifice” (Scott #3070a-b).

Figure 86
Iran, 2013, souvenir sheet, 15100 riyals (total), Congress of Engineering Martyrs (Scott #3091).

Figure 87
Iran, 2014, customized stamp, 20000 riyals, commemoration of martyr Ḥusaynʿalī ʿĀlī (as yet unlisted in Scott catalogue).

Figure 88
Iran, 2015, commemorative stamp, 9000 riyals, “Commemoration of 175 Martyr Divers” (Scott #3153).

Figure 89
Iran, 2014, customized stamp, 20000 riyals, martyr Maḥbūbah Dānish Āshtiyānī (Mahbubeh Danesh Ashtiyani) (as yet unlisted in Scott catalogue).

Figure 90
Iran, 2017, commemorative stamp, 9000 riyals, in memory of firefighter martyrs (as yet unlisted in Scott catalogue).