Events from the year 1990 in Iran.
Incumbents
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Supreme Leader:
Ali Khamenei
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنهای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...
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President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
:
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Vice President
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:
Hassan Habibi
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Chief Justice:
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Events
*21 June – The 7.4
Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
Births
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22 April
Events Pre-1600
*1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern h ...
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Arsalan Kazemi.
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12 November
Events Pre-1600
* 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.
* 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
*133 ...
– Farahnaz Amirsoleymani, author and illustrator
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23 November
Events Pre-1600
*534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage.
*1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
*1499 – Pretender to the thr ...
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Negin Dadkhah, Iranian national
speed skater
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Deaths
* 15 March –
Farzad Bazoft
Farzad Bazoft ( fa, فرزاد بازفت; 22 May 1958 – 15 March 1990) was an Iranian journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s. He worked as a freelance reporter for ''The Observer''. He was arrested by Iraqi authoritie ...
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See also
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Years in Iraq
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Years in Afghanistan
References
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
Years of the 20th century in Iran
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
1990s in Iran
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