Events from the year 2002 in Iran.

Incumbents

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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Mohammad Khatami Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to ...

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Mohammad-Reza Aref Mohammad Reza Aref ( fa, محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who was the parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, S ...

* Chief Justice:

Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi ( fa, سید محمود هاشمی شاهرودی, 15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and conservative politician who was the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council fr ...

Events

* 12 February –

Iran Air Tours Flight 956 Iran Air Tours Flight 956 was a Tupolev Tu-154M which crashed south-west of Tehran on 12 February 2002. During a non precision approach to runway 11, the airliner impacted the Kuh-e Sefid Mountain at an altitude , left of the runway centerline. ...

crashes in Tehran. * 22 June – The 6.3 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake shook northwestern Iran with a maximum

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of VIII (''Severe''). Two hundred and sixty-one people were killed and 1,500 were injured. * Creation of Iran’s primary nuclear reactor in Bushehr gets under way with the assist of Russian engineers.

Establishments

Parsian Bank Parsian Bank ( fa, بانک پارسیان, ''Bank Parsian'') is a major Banking and insurance in Iran, Iranian private bank, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. In addition to traditional banking services, Parsian also offers diversified services suc ...

Births

* Yasin Salmani

Notable deaths

* October 4 – Ahmad Mahmoud, 71,

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References

Years of the 21st century in Iran 2000s in Iran