2003 in Iran

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Events in the year 2003 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Incumbents

• Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
• President: Mohammad Khatami
• Vice President: Mohammad-Reza Aref
• Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

Events

• October 21 - Iran agrees to suspend processing and enriching uranium and allow unannounced inspections by the IAEA.
• November 12 - The IAEA finds no evidence of a nuclear program but expresses concern about plutonium production.
• December 26 – The 6.6 M_w  Bam earthquake shook southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.

Notable births

• Yasha Asley

Notable deaths

• July 8 – Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins ^[1]
• September 6 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Mount Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.
• July 11 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer murdered by the Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi. (b. 1949) ^[2]

References

1. "Surgeons' sorrow at death of twins". BBC News . 8 July 2003. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
2. "Zahra Kazemi's killers still unpunished, 15 years after her death in custody". Reporters Without Borders. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2024.