2008 in Iran
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The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Incumbents
- Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
- President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Vice President: Parviz Davoodi
- Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Events
February
- February 4 – Iran launches the Kavoshgar-1 research rocket to inaugurate a newly built space center.[1]
March
- March 14 – Iranian voters go to the polls in legislative election. Nearly 90 percent of reformist candidates have been disqualified from the election.[2]
- March 16 – The Conservative Alliance wins the Iranian legislative election.[3]
August
- August 12 – The United States Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on five Iranian companies for assisting the development of the nuclear program of Iran.[4]
- August 17 – Iran announces it has launched a satellite launch-capable Safir rocket.[5]
Notable deaths
- January 9 – Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure.[6]
- January 13 – Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.[7]
- January 20 – Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.[8]
- February 2 – Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure.[9]
- February 6 – Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer.[10]
- March 5 – Nader Khalili, 72, Iranian architect, heart failure.[11]
- March 21 – Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer.[12]
- March 23 – Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist.[13]
- April 12 – Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.[14]
- April 15 – Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.[15]
- April 29 – Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.[16]
- July 18 – Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.[17]
- October 9 – Ardeshir Mohassess, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.[18]
- October 10 – Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
- October 25 – Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.[19]
References
- ^ (BBC News)
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- ^ "U.S. sanctions five Iranian groups over nuclear work". 12 August 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- ^ "Iran launches satellite carrier". 17 August 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
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