2009 in Iran
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Events in the year 2009 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Incumbents
[edit]- Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
- President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Vice President:
- until 25 July: Parviz Davoodi
- 17 July–25 July: Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei
- starting 13 September: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
- Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (until 30 June), Sadeq Larijani (starting 30 June)
Events
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- February 2 – Iran's first domestically constructed satellite, Omid, is launched.[1]
- March 7 – Morocco terminates diplomatic relations with Iran.[2]
- March 18 – Somali pirates hijack an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Aden.[3]
- April 18 – Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is charged with espionage and imprisoned in Iran until 2017.[4]
- May 4 – A bus collides with a building in Īlām Province, Iran, killing 28 people and injuring nine others.[5]
- May 20 – Iran launches a Sejjil-2 medium-range surface-to-surface missile.[6]
- May 30 – A bomb is discovered and defused aboard a Kish Air flight between Ahvaz and Tehran, Iran.[7]
- June 12 – Iran goes to the polls for its presidential election.[8]
- June 13 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reelected as the President of Iran, although opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi demands a recount.[9]
- June 20 – A suicide bomb reportedly explodes at the shrine of former Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.[10]
- June 22 – The Iranian Revolutionary Guard warns that it will 'crush' any further protests.[11]
- June 23 – The Guardian Council rules out a re-run of the presidential election saying that there was no sign of serious electoral fraud in the June 12 vote.[12]
- June 24 – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares the recent election result will stand.[13]
- July 15 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, flying from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board, crashes in Iran shortly after takeoff.[14]
- July 24 – Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes in Mashhad, Iran, killing at least 17 people and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board.[15]
- July 28 – Iran releases 140 people detained in its post-election unrest as the supreme leader orders a prison where jailed protesters were killed be closed.[16]
- July 30 – Iranian police clash with mourners at a Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit.[17]
- August 3 – Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[18]
- August 5 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in as President of Iran for a second term.[19]
- October 18 – 2009 Pishin bombing: a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a meeting in the southeastern Iranian town of Pishin in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The attack killed at least 43 people including several senior commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards,[20] and injured a further 150.[21] The Sunni rebel organization Jundallah claimed responsibility for the attack.[citation needed]
- November 4 – Around 700 people are injured in two earthquakes in southern Iran.[22]
- November 9 – Three American hikers detained on the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran are to be charged for espionage by Iranian authorities.[23]
- November 29 – The Iranian government approves plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants.[24]
- December 28 – Iran declares martial law in Najafabad following a week of protest and 2 days of violence.[25]
Full date unknown
[edit]- United4Iran organization is established.[26]
Notable deaths
[edit]- January 30 – Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.[27]
- February 2 – Ezzat Negahban, c. 82, Iranian archaeologist.[28]
- March 21 – Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness.[29]
- May 1 – Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.[30]
- May 15 – Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar.[31]
- May 17 – Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 96, Iranian cleric, heart disease.[citation needed]
- June 20 – Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student, shot.[32]
- June 29 – Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis.[citation needed]
- August 11 – Behjat Sadr, 85, Iranian painter, heart attack.[33]
- September 21 – Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest.[citation needed]
- November 9 – Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack.[34]
- November 10 – Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.[35]
- November 11 – Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging.[36]
- November 17 – Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian actress, complications of a heart attack.[37]
- November 22 – Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma.[citation needed]
- December 9 – Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage.[citation needed]
- December 19 – Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, 87, Iranian cleric and dissident, natural causes.[38]
References
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- ^ (AP via Google News)
- ^ "(Horseed)". Archived from the original on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
- ^ (BBC)
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- ^ (CNN)
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- ^ (CTV)
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- ^ (The Daily Telegraph)
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- ^ Iranian commanders assassinated. BBC News. October 18, 2009.
- ^ UN Security Council strongly condemns terrorist attacks in Iran. Xinhua. October 20, 2009.
- ^ (CNN)
- ^ "(The Independent)". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-11-13. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ (Sky News)
- ^ "(WashingtonTV)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Former Iran striker dies from lung cancer". 30 January 2009.
- ^ "Gooya news :: Society : استاد عزت الله نگهبان، "پدر باستان شناسی مدرن ايران" درگذشت".
- ^ "Khadijeh Saqafi, Khomeini's Wife, is Dead at 93". The New York Times. 24 March 2009.
- ^ "Delara Darabi Executed".
- ^ "CHN | News". Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "MehrNews.com - Iran, world, political, sport, economic news and headlines". Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
- ^ "Iranian translator Mehdi Sahabi dies at 66". 10 November 2009.
- ^ "Iran torture whistleblower died from poison in salad". TheGuardian.com. 2 December 2009.
- ^ "Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » Ehsan Fattahian was Hanged this Morning in Iran". Archived from the original on 2009-11-13. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ^ "Actress Niku Kheradmand dies at 77". 17 November 2009.
- ^ "Top dissident Iranian cleric dies". 20 December 2009.
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