Events in the year 2018 in

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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 ...

President of Iran The president of Iran ( fa, رئیس‌جمهور ایران, Rayis Jomhur-e Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader. The president i ...

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

Parliament of Iran The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The Pa ...

Ali Larijani Ali Ardeshir Larijani ( fa, علی لاریجانی, ; born 3 June 1957) is an Iranian conservative politician, philosopher and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran ...

* Judiciary System of Iran:

Sadeq Larijani Sadeq Ardeshir Larijani ( fa, صادق اردشیر لاریجانی; born 12 March 1961), better known as Amoli Larijani ( fa, آملی لاریجانی), is an Iranian scholar, conservative politician, and current chairman of Expediency Discern ...

Events

January

* January 1 – As protests continue from last year, ten people are killed in the streets overnight. * January 4 – The

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treasury sanctions five entities associated with Iran's ballistic missiles program. * January 6 – Thousands of pro-government demonstrators march the streets for the fourth day in a row. * January 7 – A ban is enforced on teaching the

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in primary schools blaming that on the unrest. * January 30 –

Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi ( fa, مهدی کروبی, Mehdi Karrubi, born 26 September 1937) is an Iranian Shia cleric and Iranian reform movement, reformist politician leading the National Trust Party (Iran), National Trust Party. Following 2009–2010 Iran ...

accuses

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 ...

of abuse of power.

February

* 18 –

Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 was a scheduled Iranian domestic passenger flight from Iranian capital Tehran Mehrabad International Airport to Yasuj in southwest Iran. On 18 February 2018, during its approach to Yasuj, the aircraft serving t ...

May

* May 6 – concern over United States President

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Iran nuclear deal The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; fa, برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک , barnāmeye jāme'e eqdāme moshtarak (, ''BARJAM'')), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, is an agreement on the nuclear program ...

over sanction that will keeping international oil market on edge, ongoing

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economic crisis, analysts warned that threaten to further crimp production and export. price rose $70 barrel up higher since November 2014. *May 9 –

Iranian Parliament The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The P ...

burned America flag called 'death to america' anger over after President Trump

United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action The United States announced its withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the "Iran nuclear deal" or the "Iran deal", on May 8, 2018. The JCPOA is an agreement on Iran's nuclear program reached in July 2015 ...

September

* 18 September – 21 people are killed and 25 others are injured in a collision between a passenger bus and a trailer carrying flammable materials in

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

November

* November 12

Sarpol-e Zahab Sarpol-e Zahab ( fa, سرپل ذهاب, ''Sarpole Zahâb''; ku, Serpêllî Zehaw, ; also romanized as Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Sar-e Pol-e Z̄ahāb, and Sar-ī-Pūl Zūhāb; also known as Pol-e Z̄ahāb, Sarpole-Zahab, Pol-e Z̄ohāb, Sarī-Pūl, and ...

Kermanshah Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...

province, eastern Iran was hit by an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude, injuring about 700 people. * November -

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’ General Assembly’s

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approved a resolution against Iranian government’s continuous discrimination against women and limitation of freedom of thought. * November – A group of UN human rights experts including

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U.N. Special rapporteur on the situation of

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in Iran and four others experts concern about

Farhad Meysami Farhad Meysami (born November 17, 1969) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian physician, teacher and civil activist. He believes in Nonviolence, non violence and civil disobedience. He was sentenced to five year sentence in August 2018 for crimes such as ...

’s situation who has been on hunger strike since August. He is in jail for opposing compulsory hijab.

December

* December 1 – Amnesty International asked the government of Iran to bring to light what has happened to the political detainees in the country. Amnesty asked United nations to set up an investigation group to find the facts of

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in Iran * On 27 December 2018 Security forces attacked with tear gas a teachers gathering outside the education office in

, central Iran. Teachers were protesting their low salary and the arrest of their colleagues who are now in jail.

Deaths

*2 January – Ali Akbar Moinfar, politician (born 1928). *9 January –

Reza Sheikholeslami Ali Reza Sheikholeslami (21 July 1941 – 9 January 2018) was Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at Wadham College in the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2006.Ali Banuazizi (2019). Ali Reza Sheikholeslami 1941–2018. '' ...

, academic (born 1941) *17 January – Jahangir Amuzegar, economist, academic and politician (born 1920) *9 March – Ali Asghar Khodadoust, eye surgeon (born 1935) *22 March –

Dariush Shayegan Dariush Shayegan ( fa, داریوش شایگان;‎ 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East. Life and career He was born in Tabriz from an Shia Iranian Azeri father ...

, philosopher and cultural theorist (born 1935) *4 May –

Naser Cheshmazar Naser Cheshmazar (31 December 1950 – 4 May 2018) was an Iranian musician and composer. He was an acknowledged master in classical music, musical theater, blues, folk music, jazz, and popular music. He composed many songs for well-known Iranian ...

, composer (born 1950) *25 May – Naser Malek Motiei, actor (born 1930) *17 August –

Ezzatolah Entezami Ezzatolah Entezami ( fa, عزت‌الله انتظامی, 21 June 1924 – 17 August 2018) was an Iranian actor. Career Ezzatolah Entezami started his career on stage in 1941 and graduated from theatre and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in ...

, actor (born 1924)

References

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