Events
- February 14 - Around 59 people were killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
- February 22 - More than 500 people were killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages were flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
- April 18 - Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
- August 3 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes office as the 6th President of Iran.
- October 26 - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns peace process. MEMRI translated Ahmadinejad's words differently: "Imam said: 'This regime that is occupying Qods must be eliminated from the pages of history.' This sentence is very wise. The issue of Palestine is not an issue on which we can compromise." (MEMRI Special Dispatch Series - No. 1013).
- December 6 - An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building - a total of 128 people.
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