2002 in Iran

Incumbents

• Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
• President: Mohammad Khatami
• Vice President: Mohammad-Reza Aref
• Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

Events

• 12 February – Iran Air Tours Flight 956 crashes in Tehran.
• 22 June – The 6.3 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake shook northwestern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII. 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.

Births

• Yasin Salmani

Notable deaths

• October 4 – Ahmad Mahmoud, 71, Iranian novelist.