2008 in Iran
# 2008 in Iran

The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

## Incumbents

* Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
* President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
* Vice President: Parviz Davoodi
* Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

## Events

### February

* February 4 – Iran launches the Kavoshgar-1 research rocket to inaugurate a newly built space center.

### March

* March 14 – Iranian voters go to the polls in the legislative election. Nearly 90 percent of reformist candidates have been disqualified from the election.
* March 16 – The Conservative Alliance wins the Iranian legislative election.

### August

* August 12 – The United States Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on five Iranian companies for assisting the development of the nuclear program of Iran.
* August 17 – Iran announces it has launched a satellite launch-capable Safir rocket.

## Notable deaths

* January 9 – Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure.
* January 13 – Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.
* January 20 – Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.
* February 2 – Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure.
* February 6 – Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer.
* March 5 – Nader Khalili, 72, Iranian architect, heart failure.
* March 21 – Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer.
* March 23 – Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist.
* April 12 – Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.
* April 15 – Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.
* April 29 – Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.
* July 18 – Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.
* October 9 – Ardeshir Mohassess, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.
* October 10 – Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
* October 25 – Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.
