2009 in Iran

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Events in the year 2009 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Incumbents

• 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

Protesters in Tehran during the 2009 Iranian election protests, 16 June 2009

• 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

• United4Iran organization is established. ^[26]

Notable deaths

• 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]

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