Events from the year 1968 in Iran.

Incumbents

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , title = Shahanshah Aryamehr Bozorg Arteshtaran , image = File:Shah_fullsize.jpg , caption = Shah in 1973 , succession = Shah of Iran , reign = 16 September 1941 – 11 February 1979 , coronation = 26 October ...

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Amir-Abbas Hoveida Amir-Abbas Hoveyda ( fa, امیرعباس هویدا, Amīr 'Abbās Hoveyda; 18 February 1919 – 7 April 1979) was an Iranian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977. He was the lo ...

Events

*31 August – The first in a destructive earthquake doublet affected eastern Iran. The 7.4 Dasht-e Bayaz earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Fifteen-thousand people were killed. *1 September – The second in the sequence, the 6.4 Ferdows earthquake, destroyed many villages, including Ferdows. Nine-hundred people were killed.

Births

* 2 June – Navid Negahban.

Full date unknown

* Shiva Mahbobi, political activist

Deaths

* 7 January –

Gholamreza Takhti Gholamreza Takhti ( fa, غلامرضا تختی, August 27, 1930 – January 7, 1968) was an Iranian Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani (''Persian Traditional Sport'') practitioner.Houchang E. Chehabi, �TAḴTI, Ḡolām-Re ...

. * 4 April – Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi.

References

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