Events in the year 2009 in the Islamic Republic of Iran .
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Protesters in Tehran during the 2009 Iranian election protests , 16 June 2009
February 2 – Iran's first domestically constructed satellite , Omid , is launched.[1]
March 7 – Morocco terminates diplomatic relations with Iran .[2]
March 18 – Somali pirates hijack an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Aden .[3]
April 18 – Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is charged with espionage and imprisoned in Iran until 2017.[4]
May 4 – A bus collides with a building in Īlām Province , Iran , killing 28 people and injuring nine others.[5]
May 20 – Iran launches a Sejjil-2 medium-range surface-to-surface missile .[6]
May 30 – A bomb is discovered and defused aboard a Kish Air flight between Ahvaz and Tehran , Iran .[7]
June 12 – Iran goes to the polls for its presidential election .[8]
June 13 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reelected as the President of Iran , although opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi demands a recount.[9]
June 20 – A suicide bomb reportedly explodes at the shrine of former Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini .[10]
June 22 – The Iranian Revolutionary Guard warns that it will 'crush' any further protests.[11]
June 23 – The Guardian Council rules out a re-run of the presidential election saying that there was no sign of serious electoral fraud in the June 12 vote.[12]
June 24 – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares the recent election result will stand.[13]
July 15 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 , flying from Tehran to Yerevan , Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board, crashes in Iran shortly after takeoff.[14]
July 24 – Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes in Mashhad , Iran , killing at least 17 people and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board.[15]
July 28 – Iran releases 140 people detained in its post-election unrest as the supreme leader orders a prison where jailed protesters were killed be closed.[16]
July 30 – Iranian police clash with mourners at a Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit.[17]
August 3 – Iran 's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .[18]
August 5 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in as President of Iran for a second term.[19]
October 18 – 2009 Pishin bombing : a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a meeting in the southeastern Iranian town of Pishin in Sistan and Baluchestan Province . The attack killed at least 43 people including several senior commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards ,[20] and injured a further 150.[21] The Sunni rebel organization Jundallah claimed responsibility for the attack.[ citation needed ]
November 4 – Around 700 people are injured in two earthquakes in southern Iran .[22]
November 9 – Three American hikers detained on the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran are to be charged for espionage by Iranian authorities.[23]
November 29 – The Iranian government approves plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants.[24]
December 28 – Iran declares martial law in Najafabad following a week of protest and 2 days of violence .[25]
January 30 – Safar Iranpak , 61, Iranian footballer , lung cancer .[27]
February 2 – Ezzat Negahban , c. 82, Iranian archaeologist .[28]
March 21 – Khadijeh Saqafi , 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini , after long illness.[29]
May 1 – Delara Darabi , 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging .[30]
May 15 – Mohammad-Amin Riahi , 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar .[31]
May 17 – Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani , 96, Iranian cleric , heart disease .[ citation needed ]
June 20 – Neda Agha-Soltan , 26, Iranian student , shot .[32]
June 29 – Mohammad Hoqouqi , 72, Iranian poet , cirrhosis .[ citation needed ]
August 11 – Behjat Sadr , 85, Iranian painter , heart attack .[33]
September 21 – Parviz Meshkatian , 54, Iranian musician and composer , cardiac arrest .[ citation needed ]
November 9 – Mehdi Sahabi , 66, Iranian writer and translator , heart attack .[34]
November 10 – Ramin Pourandarjani , 26, Iranian doctor , whistleblower on use of torture , poisoned .[35]
November 11 – Ehsan Fatahian , 28, Iranian Kurdish activist , executed by hanging .[36]
November 17 – Niku Kheradmand , 77, Iranian actress , complications of a heart attack .[37]
November 22 – Ali Kordan , 51, Iranian politician , Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma .[ citation needed ]
December 9 – Faramarz Payvar , 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage .[ citation needed ]
December 19 – Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri , 87, Iranian cleric and dissident , natural causes .[38]