From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2009 in Iran
2009 in Iran
««« »»» • February 2 – Iran’s first domestically constructed
2009 satellite, Omid, is launched.[1]
2008 2010
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2007
Iran 2011 • March 7 – Morocco terminates diplomatic relations
2006 2012 with Iran.[2]
• March 18 – Somali pirates hijack an Iranian fishing
Decades: 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s
vessel in the Gulf of Aden.[3]
See also: Other events of 2009 • April 18 – Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi
List of years in Iran is charged with espionage and imprisoned in Iran
until 2017.[4]
Events in the year 2009 in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran. • May 4 – A bus collides with a building in Īlām
Province, Iran, killing 28 people and injuring nine
others.[5]
Incumbents • May 20 – Iran launches a Sajjil-2 medium-range
• Supreme Leader – Ali Khamenei surface-to-surface missile.[6]
• President – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • 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
Events 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
Protesters in Tehran during the 2009 Iranian election protests, crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and
16 June 2009 forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to
make his exit.[17]
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• August 3 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei • November 22 – Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician,
formally approves the second-term presidency of Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma.[42]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[18] • December 9 – Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer
• August 5 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is officially sworn and santur player, brain damage.[43]
in as President of Iran for a second term.[19] • December 19 – Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali
• October 18 – 2009 Pishin bombing: a suicide bomber Montazeri, 87, Iranian cleric and dissident, natural
detonated explosives at a meeting in the causes.[44]
southeastern Iranian town of Pishin in Sistan and
Baluchestan Province. The attack killed at least 43
people including several senior commanders of
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards,[20][21] and injured a [1] (Reuters)
further 150.[22] The Sunni rebel organization [2] (AP via Google News)
Jundallah claimed responsibility for the attack.[23] [3] (Horseed)
• November 4 – Around 700 people are injured in two [4] (BBC)
earthquakes in southern Iran.[24] [5] (BBC)
• November 9 – Three American hikers detained on [6] (BBC)
the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran are to [7] (CNN)
be charged for espionage by Iranian authorities.[25] [8] (BBC)
• November 29 – The Iranian government approves [9] (BBC News)
plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants.[26] [10] (CTV)
• December 28 – Iran declares martial law in Najafabad [11] (Al Jazeera)
following a week of protest and 2 days of [12] (Al Jazeera)
violence.[27] [13] (BBC)
[14] (BBC)
[15] (BBC)
Notable deaths [16] (The Daily Telegraph)
• January 30 – Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, [17] (BBC)
lung cancer.[28] [18] (BBC)
• February 2 – Ezzat Negahban, c. 82, Iranian [19] (BBC)
archaeologist.[29] [20] PressTV/Iran Today/The Bloody Terrorist attack in
• March 21 – Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of Baluchistan/27/10/2009
religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after [21] Iranian commanders assassinated. BBC News.
long illness.[30] October 18, 2009.
• May 1 – Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted [22] UN Security Council strongly condemns terrorist
murderer, executed by hanging.[31] attacks in Iran. Xinhua. October 20, 2009.
• May 15 – Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian [23] Jundullah claims responsibility for terror attack.
historian and literary scholar.[32] Press TV. October 18, 2009.
• May 17 – Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 96, [24] (CNN)
Iranian cleric, heart disease.[33] [25] (The Independent)
• June 20 – Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student, [26] (Sky News)
shot.[34] [27] (WashingtonTV)
• June 29 – Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, [28] [1]
cirrhosis.[35] [29] [2]
• August 11 – Behjat Sadr, 85, Iranian painter, heart [30] [3]
attack.[36] [31] [4]
• September 21 – Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian [32] [5]
musician and composer, cardiac arrest.[37] [33] [6]
• November 9 – Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and [34] [7]
translator, heart attack.[38] [35] [8]
• November 10 – Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian [36] [9]
doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.[39] [37] [10]
• November 11 – Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish [38] [11]
activist, executed by hanging.[40] [39] [12]
• November 17 – Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian [40] [13]
actress, complications of a heart attack.[41] [41] [14]
[42] [15]
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