2020 in Iran

Events in the year 2020 in Iran.

Incumbents

Events

January

January 3 - A U.S. coordinated airstrike near Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani.
January 7 - A stampede at the burial procession of Qasem Soleimani killed at least 56 people and injured over 200.
January 8
* Ballistic missiles from Iran strike two United States military bases in Iraq.
* Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes after being shot down by Iranian missiles near Tehran shortly after take-off with 176 passengers and crew on board. All 176 passengers and crew died.
January 9 - A bus crashes in Mazandaran province, killing at least 20 passengers and injuring 24 others.
January 11 – the British Ambassador to Iran is arrested and released shortly after.
January 12
*Hundreds of Iranians attend anti-government protest after government admits shooting down a Ukrainian airplane due to human error.
*Kimia Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal in Taekwondo during the 2016 Summer Olympics, has defected to an undisclosed country. It is unclear if she will compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics
January 22
* Masked gunmen kill local security leader, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, head of a unit of the Revolutionary Guard.

February

19 February – The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in Qom, marking the beginning of the pandemic in the country.
21 February – Scheduled date for the 2020 Iranian legislative election.
23 February – 2020 Khoy earthquake
29 February – 43 people have died and 593 are infected with COVID-19.

May

10 May – an anti-ship missile fired from the hit the support vessel, killing 19 and wounding 15 of the crew of the Konarak.

June

25 June – The first of the 2020 Iran explosions occurs
26 June – An explosion occurred at a Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group facility outside of Tehran, which houses the Khojir missile facility.

July

2 July – The Natanz incident occurred, wherein the centrifuge assembly center at the Natanz nuclear site was destroyed.

December

3 December – Iran surpasses 1 million cases of COVID-19.

Deaths

3 January – Qasem Soleimani, 62, major general, commander of the Quds Force
19 February – Yervand Manaryan, 95, actor
27 February – Hadi Khosroshahi, 81, cleric and diplomat
28 February
*Mahmoud Khayami, 90, industrialist and philanthropist
*Malakeh Ranjbar, 81, actress,
1 March – Siamand Rahman, 31, powerlifter, paralympic champion
3 March – Ahmad NikTalab, 85, poet, author, and linguistic
5 March – Hossein Sheikholesam, 67, politician,
4 March – Eskandar Firouz, 93, environmentalist and politician
7 March
*Fatemeh Rahbar, 55, politician, member-elect of the parliament,
*Houshang Zarif, 81, tar player, heart failure
13 March – Nasser Shabani, 62–63, brigadier general, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
15 March – Mohammad Ami-Tehrani, 84, olympic weightlifter
16 March –
*Hashem Bathaie Golpayenagi, 78–79, cleric, member of the Assembly of Experts
*Fariborz Raisdana, 75, economist
19 March – Hamid Kohram, 61–62, politician
22 March – Behrouz Rahbar, 74, olympic racing cyclist
23 March – Hassan Akbarzadeh, 93, researcher and mathematician
24 March – Abbasgholi Daneshvar, 95, physician and surgeon
25 March –
*Edman Ayvazyan, 87, painter
*Farzaneh Taidi, 74, actress
27 March – Daniel Gevargiz, 79, olympic weightlifter
30 March – Kioumars Darembakhsh, 74, writer and photographer
5 April – Homayoun Khosravi, 66, musician
11 April – Pari Mansouri, 85, writer and translator
15 April – Siamak Shayeghi, 65, film director and producer
24 April – Ebrahim Amini, 94, cleric and politician, member of the Assembly of Experts
26 April – Abolfazl Salabi, 95, basketball player
4 May – Najaf Daryabandari, 90, writer
16 May – Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, 67–6, politician and diplomat
25 May – Sedigheh Kianfar, 87, actress
5 June – Marjan, 71, singer and actress
6 June – Mehdi Nikbakht, 40, poet and daf player
9 June – Parviz Aboutaleb, 77–78, footballer and coach
14 June – Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, 90, actor
19 June – Alborz Zarei, 38, climber and environmentalist
19 June – Gholamreza Mansouri, 54, judge
27 June – David Stronach, 89, archaeologist of ancient Iran
1 July – Sirous Gorjestani, 75, actor
8 July – Houshang Seddigh, 72, pilot and commander of the Air Force
14 July – Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh, 75, politician
18 July – Ali Mirzaei, 91, weightlifter
18 July – Saeed Ghaemmaghami, 76, journalist
20 July – Ahmad Pourmokhber, 79, actor
28 July – Badr al-Zamān Qarīb, 90, linguist
1 August – Khosrow Sinai, 79, film director
3 August – Mohammad Reza Navaei, 71, wrestler
7 August – Mahchehreh Khalili, 43, actress
16 August – Bahman Mofid, 78, actor
18 August – Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri, 75, cleric and politician, member of the Assembly of Experts
25 August – Ruhollah Hosseinian, 64, cleric and politician
27 August – Siah Armajani, 81, sculptor and architect
29 August – Serjik Teymourian, 46, footballer
31 August – Farhad Ahmadi, 69, architecture
12 September – Yousef Saanei, 82, cleric
12 September – Navid Afkari, 26–27, wrestler
18 September – Talat Basari, 97, writer and academic
30 September – Abbas Javanmard, 91, actor and director
1 October – Manouchehr Ashtiani, 89, sociologist
6 October – Nosratollah Vahdat, 95, actor and director
8 October – Mohammad Reza Shajarian, 80, singer
12 October – Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi, 80, archaeologist
13 October – Akbar A'lami, 75, TV presenter
16 October – Gholam-Abbas Tavassoli, 85, sociologist
18 October – Laleh Bakhtiar, 82, translator
24 October – Abbas Moayeri, 81, painter
29 October – Karim Akbari Mobarakeh, 67, actor
31 October – Jalal Malaksha, 69, poet
8 November – Heidar Shonjani, 74, swimmer
10 November – Mahmoud Yavari, 81, football coach
10 November – Amir Yavari, 88, boxer
22 November – Changiz Jalilvand, 82, dubler
24 November – Kambuzia Partovi, 65, film director
24 November – Mohammad Khadem, 85, wrestler
27 November – Parviz Poorhosseini, 79, actor
27 November – Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 59, physician
28 November – Mohammad-Ali Shahidi, 71, cleric and politician
29 November – Ramesh, 74, singer and actress
1 December – Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, 98, actor
1 December – Mohammad Maleki, 87, writer and human rights activist
9 December – Mohammad Yazdi, 89, cleric and politician
12 December – Ruhollah Zam, 42, journalist