Mehr (Persian: مهر)[3] is a city in, and the capital of, Gachi District of Malekshahi County, Ilam province, Iran.

[5] At the time of the 2006 National Census, Mehr's population was 1,238 in 262 households, when it was a village in Gachi Rural District of the former Malekshahi District[a] of Mehran County.

[7] The following census in 2011 counted 1,198 people in 319 households,[8] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Malekshahi County.

[4] The 2016 census measured the population as 1,060 people in 301 households,[2] when Mehr had been elevated to the status of a city.

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