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2008 in Iran

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The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
  • President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Vice President: Parviz Davoodi
  • Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

    • February

  • February 4 – Iran launches the Kavoshgar-1 research rocket to inaugurate a newly built space center.

    • March

  • March 14 – Iranian voters go to the polls in legislative election. Nearly 90 percent of reformist candidates have been disqualified from the election.
  • March 16 – The Conservative Alliance wins the Iranian legislative election.

    • 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.
  • August 17 - Iran announces it has launched a satellite launch-capable Safir rocket.

    • Notable deaths

  • January 9 – Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure.
  • January 13 – Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.
  • January 20 – Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.
  • February 2 – Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure.
  • February 6 – Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer.
  • March 5 – Nader Khalili, 72, Iranian architect, heart failure.
  • March 21 – Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer.
  • March 23 – Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist.
  • April 12 – Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.
  • April 15 – Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.
  • April 29 – Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.
  • July 18 – Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.
  • October 9 – Ardeshir Mohassess, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.
  • October 10 – Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
  • October 25 – Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.

    • References

    2008 in Iran Wikipedia
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