2025 in Iran

Events in the year 2025 in Iran.

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• Supreme Leader of Iran: Ali Khamenei
• President of Iran: Masoud Pezeshkian
• Speaker of the Parliament: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
• Chief Justice: Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i

• 8 January – The Iranian government releases Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from prison, with Sala arriving back in Rome later that day.^[1]
• 9 January – A Swiss national is reported to have died by suicide at a prison in Semnan following his arrest on espionage charges.^[2]
• 15 January – A light aircraft of the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran crashes near Rasht during a training flight, killing all three people on board.^[3]
• 17 January – President Masoud Pezeshkian signs a "comprehensive strategic partnership treaty" with Russia.^[4]
• 18 January – 2025 assassination of Sharia judges in Iran: Two judges of the Supreme Court of Iran are killed in a shooting inside the Palace of Justice in Tehran. The attacker commits suicide.^[5]
• 22 January – An Iranian military aircraft crashes near Kabudarahang, Hamadan Province during a training flight, injuring its two pilots.^[6]

• 6 February – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessel Shahid Bagheri, Iran's first drone-carrier warship, is inaugurated.^[7]
• 13 February – Two British nationals are reported to have been arrested in Kerman for security-related offences.^[8]

• 2 March – The Islamic Consultative Assembly removes Abdolnaser Hemmati as economy minister after 182 of 273 MPs vote for his impeachment, citing an ongoing economic crisis.^[9]
• 5 March – Singer Mehdi Yarrahi is flogged as part of his conviction for alcohol-related offenses.^[10]
• 6 March – One person is killed in an explosion and fire at a military facility in Tehran.^[11]
• 17 March – French national Olivier Grondeau, who had been imprisoned in Iran since 2022 on espionage charges, is released and repatriated to France.^[12]
• 25 March – Iran qualifies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after a 2-2 draw against Uzbekistan at the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification in Tehran.^[13]

• 1 April – The United States Department of Justice charges Iranian businessmen Hossein Akbari and Reza Amidi with money laundering and conspiring to obtain drone components in the US for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.^[14]
• 5 April – President Pezeshkian dismisses Shahram Dabiri Oskuei as vice president for parliamentary affairs amid criticism over the latter going on a high-priced vacation to Argentina and Antarctica during Nowruz amid an economic crisis in Iran.^[15][16]
• 7 April – Seven miners are killed in a gas leak at a coal mine near Damghan.^[17]
• 12 April –
  • Eight Pakistani laborers are killed in an attack in Mehrestan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province.^[18]
  • Iran and the United States hold their first high-level negotiations since 2018 over the Iranian nuclear programme in Oman.^[19]
• 14 April – The European Union imposes sanctions on seven Iranian judges, prosecutors and penal officials, including Evin Prison director Hedayatollah Farzadi, over the detention of EU citizens in Iran on "spurious grounds".^[20]
• 15 April – President Pezeshkian accepts the resignation of Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif.^[18]
• 24 April – Four employees of the state broadcaster IRIB are arrested on charges related to the airing of a program insulting the Sunni caliph Abu Bakr.^[21]
• 26 April – 2025 Bandar Abbas port explosion: An explosion and fire at the Port of Shahid Rajaee kills 57 people and injures more than 1,000 others.^[22]
• 29 April – 2025 Isfahan explosion: An explosion at a chemical warehouse in Meymeh, Isfahan Province, kills two people and injures two others.^[23]
• 30 April – Iran executes Mohsen Langarneshin, an inmate of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj who was convicted of spying for Israel and involvement in the assassination of IRGC colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei in 2022 following a trial described as unfair by human rights advocates.^[24]

• 4 May – The Iranian defence ministry announces that it had tested a new ballistic missile called Qassem Basir.^[25]
• 16 May – France files a case at the International Court of Justice against Iran accusing it of violating the rights of two French nationals arrested and imprisoned in the country since 2022 and holding them hostage.^[26]
• 21 May – Iran executes the convicted perpetrator of the 2023 attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran.^[27]
• 24 May – Film director Jafar Panahi wins the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his film It Was Just an Accident.^[28]
• 27 May – A judge is fatally stabbed by two assailants in Shiraz.^[29]

• June 4 –
  • Iran arrests 13 Islamic State – Khorasan Province members, including its leader and suicide bombers, in counter-terrorism operations across multiple provinces.^[30][31]
  • US President Donald Trump issues a proclamation barring Iranian nationals from entering the United States.^[32]
• June 10 – Iran executes nine Islamic State militants involved in clashes in the west of the country in 2018 that killed three IRGC members.^[33]
• June 11 – Three people are killed in an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in Bandar-e Dayyer.^[34]
• June 12 – The International Atomic Energy Agency rules that Iran has been in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time since 2005.^[35]
• June 13 –
  • Israel conducts airstrikes against Iran's nuclear program, with explosions reported in Tehran. Multiple military officials are killed in the attacks, including IRGC commander Hossein Salami and armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri.^[36]
  • Iran launches airstrikes at Israel in response to the previous airstrikes.^[37]
• June 16 –
  • The headquarters of the state broadcaster IRIB in Tehran is bombed by Israel during a live broadcast, killing at least one person.^[38]
  • Pakistan orders an indefinite closure of its border with Iran amid the Iran–Israel War.^[39]
• 20 June – Australia suspends operations at its embassy in Tehran due to escalating security risks; consular staff are redeployed to Azerbaijan.^[40]
• 21 June – United States strikes on Iran: The United States Air Force carries out an operation on Iran, entering the U.S. into the Iran–Israel war.^[41]
• 23 June – The Iranian Air Force launches ballistic missiles towards Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which houses the U.S. Air Force. The missiles are intercepted by the Qatar Armed Forces.^[42][43]
• 24 June – A ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump to end the Iran–Israel war comes into effect.^[44]

• 11 January – Fereydoon Shahbazyan, 82, composer and conductor.^[45]
• 12 January – Monireh Gorji, 95–96, teacher and mujtahid, member of the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution (1979).^[46]
• 14 January – Nasser Biria, 65, Shia cleric and politician.^[47]
• 15 January – Ebrahim Nabavi, 66, satirist, writer and diarist.^[48]
• 18 January –
  • Mohammad Moghiseh, 68, judge, justice of the Supreme Court (since 2020).^[49]
  • Ali Razini, 71, judge and politician, justice of the Supreme Court (since 2016) and member of the Assembly of Experts (2007–2016).^[49]
• 19 January – Jalal Matini, 96, writer.^[50]
• 1 February – Mehdi Haj Mohamad, 74, footballer (Taj, national team).^[51]
• 19 February – Gholamhossein Farzami, 79, footballer (Taj, national team).^[52]
• 12 March – Mahmoud Farshidi, 73, politician, minister of education (2005–2007).^[53]
• 18 March – Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, 84, Kurdish politician.^[54]
• 21 March – Parvaneh Etemadi, 77, visual artist.^[55]
• 1 April – Faramarz Zelli, 82, footballer (Kian Tehran, PAS Tehran, national team).^[56]
• 11 April – Akbar Etemad, 95, electrical engineer, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (1974–1978).^[57]
• 30 April – Bahman Salehnia, 86, football coach.^[58]
• 1 May – Ali Yachkaschi, 86, environmentalist.^[59]
• 22 May – Hassan Kamshad, 99, translator.^[60]
• 2 June – Bahram Akasheh, 89, geophysicist and seismologist.^[61]
• 9 June – Akbar Ahmadpour, 66, politician, MP (2020–2024).^[62]