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List of events
Events in the year 2012 in the Islamic Republic of Iran .
Incumbents
Events
January 9 – Iranian authorities sentence
Amir Mirza Hekmati , a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, to death on espionage charges.
[1]
March 2 – Iranian
parliamentary elections for the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly were held.
[2]
March 12 –
Ali Daei ,
Iran 's football legend and
the world's all-time leading goalscorer , is rushed to hospital following a serious car accident.
[3]
March 26 –
Somali pirates hijack an
Iranian -owned cargo ship with 23 crew in waters off the
Maldives .
[4]
April 14 –
Iran and
world powers , including the
United States ,
Russia , and
China , begin talks about Iran's
nuclear program .
[5]
April 23 –
Iran's oil ministry and its
National Iranian Oil Company suffers a
malware attack by a computer virus.
[6]
[7]
May 1 –
Egypt security services foil an alleged
Iranian plot to kill the
Saudi ambassador in
Cairo .
[8]
May 5 – Voters in
Iran go to the polls for the second round of
legislative elections .
[9]
May 12 –
President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls
Israel "nothing more than a
mosquito " and downplays the idea of war between the two countries, ahead of talks regarding
Iran's nuclear program .
[10]
May 15 – Majid Jamali Fashi, convicted of killing
Iranian
quantum field theorist and
elementary-particle physicist
Masoud Alimohammadi , is executed.
[11]
June 11 –
Ali Larijani is sworn in as
Chairman of the
Parliament of Iran for another term.
June 24 – The
United States admits that it infected
Iranian computers with
Spyware .
[12]
June 28 –
Vice President of Iran
Mohammad-Reza Rahimi delivers an
anti-Semitic speech at a
United Nations conference on the
illegal drug trade saying that a central
Jewish text, the
Talmud , was responsible for the spread of illegal drugs around the world; his speech draws condemnation from U.N. and the
European Union diplomats.
[13]
[14]
July 2 – Officials in
Kenya say that two
Iranian
Islamic Revolutionary Guards arrested with explosives planned to attack
Israeli ,
American ,
British and
Saudi Arabian targets inside Kenya.
[15]
[16]
July 4 – Two
Iranian suspects held by
Kenyan police reportedly confess that they planned to detonate a series of 30 bombs simultaneously across
Kenya .
[17]
July 17 – United States President
Barack Obama announces
additional sanctions against
Iran for its
nuclear program .
[18]
August 4 –
Iran claims to have successfully test fired a fourth generation
Fateh-110 missile.
[19]
August 11 –
Two earthquakes , the strongest a magnitude 6.4, strike near the northwestern
Iranian cities of
Tabriz and
Ahar , killing at least 250 people and injuring up to 1,800 others.
August 21 –
Iran unveils a new version of a short range surface-to-surface
ballistic missile , named the
Fateh-110 or Conqueror, and five pieces of military hardware.
[20]
[21]
August 26 – Heads of state meet at the
16th Summit of the
Non-Aligned Movement in
Tehran ,
Iran , until August 31.
[22]
[23]
[24]
August 30 – The
International Atomic Energy Agency releases a report on the
Nuclear program of Iran , stating that Iran has doubled its number of centrifuges at the
Fordow facility and highlighting concern over the nuclear program.
[25]
August 30 –
Iran and
Egypt describe each other as "strategic allies" at the
16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Iran.[
citation needed ]
September 7 –
Canada closes its embassy in
Iran and orders all Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada, citing Iran's support for
Syrian
President
Bashar al-Assad , Iran's "among the worst"
human rights record , its lack of respect for the
Vienna conventions , its nuclear program and the security of Canadian diplomatic personnel. It sees Iran as the world's "most significant threat to global peace and security."
Minister of foreign affairs
Baird says the
Canadian government files Iran as a
"state sponsor of terrorism" under the Canadian
Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act .
[26]
[27]
September 23 –
Iran blocks use of the
Google search engine, as it prepares to switch its citizens to a domestic internet network.
[28]
October 11 –
Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah confirms that the drone aircraft shot down over
Israel 's
Negev Desert on 6 October belonged to the organization and was supplied by
Iran .
[29]
November 9 – Two Iranian
Revolutionary Guard fighter jets fire on an unmanned American
General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international airspace near
Kuwait .
[30]
Notable deaths
Hassan Kassai
January 11 –
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan , Iranian nuclear scientist.
[31]
January 13 –
Abdollah Mojtabavi , Iranian wrestler.
[32]
March 8 –
Simin Daneshvar , Iranian writer and academic
[33]
March 18 -
Jalal Zolfonun , Iranian
setar player and composer[
citation needed ]
April 5 -
Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi , religious writer, journalist and translator.
[34]
May 6 –
Iraj Ghaderi , Iranian film director and actor.
[35]
May 23 –
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian , Iranian writer and princess.
[36]
May 30 –
Farideh Mashini , Iranian feminist activist.
[37]
June 14 –
Hassan Kassai , Iranian musician.
[38]
July 12 –
Hamid Samandarian , Iranian film and theater director.[
citation needed ]
July 19 –
Mohammad Hassan Ganji , Iranian meteorologist and academic.
[39]
October 22 –
Ahmad Ghabel , Iranian religious scholar and political dissident.
[40]
November 3 –
Sattar Beheshti , blogger tortured to death by the
Iranian Cyber Police
November 22 –
Fahimeh Rastkar , Iranian actress and dubbing artist.[
citation needed ]
December 2 –
Ehsan Naraghi , Iranian sociologist and writer, Director of UNESCO's Youth Division (1980–1996).
[41]
December 3 –
Amir Mahmud Anvar Iranian literary academic and poet (born
1945 )
[42]
December 10 –
Khalil Omrani , Iranian poet.
[43]
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