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Events in the year 2024 in Iran.

Incumbents

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

Events

January

• 1 January – Iran formally joins the BRICS group.^[1]
• 3 January – Kerman bombings: At least 103 people are killed in a bomb attack in Kerman, during a ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.^[2]
• 11 January – Seizure of the St Nikolas: The Iranian Navy seizes control of the Marshall Islands-flagged, United States-controlled & Greek-operated civilian oil tanker St Nikolas in the Gulf of Oman.^[3]
• 15 January – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) kills four people and injures five others in a ballistic missile and drone attack on Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The IRGC also launches a missile at a target in Aleppo Governorate, Syria.^[4]
• 16 January:
  • The Iranian government extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's jail term of 12 years for "spreading propaganda".^[5]
  • Iran launches a missile attack within Pakistan's Balochistan Province, targeting what it describes are terrorist sites. Pakistan calls the action an "unprovoked violation" of its airspace resulting in the death of two children and injuries to three others.^[6]
• 17 January – Pakistan recalls its ambassador to Iran in response to the missile attack on its territory that killed two civilians.^[7]
• 18 January – Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar: The Pakistan Air Force launches "precision airstrikes" on Baloch separatist targets inside Iran in response to Iranian missile strikes against Baloch separatist militants in Balochistan Province on 16 January. Camps belonging to the Baluch Liberation Front and Balochistan Liberation Army are reportedly hit. Explosions are reported in Saravan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, near the Iran–Pakistan border. Four women and three children are killed in the strikes, all of whom are foreign nationals.^[8]
• 20 January – An Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Damascus, Syria, kills five IRGC members, including general Sadegh Omidzadeh.^[9]
• 21 January – Five soldiers are killed after a fellow soldier opens fire inside a barracks dormitory in Kerman.^[10]
• 25 January – The United States Department of Commerce issues a $15 million bounty for information on Hossein Hatefi Ardakani, an Iranian businessman accused of procuring parts for drones assembled by the IRGC and later sold to Russia.^[11]
• 27 January – Three gunmen kill nine Pakistani labourers in Saravan.^[12]
• 29 January – Four men are executed after being convicted of planning a bomb attack ordered by Israel’s spy agency Mossad on a factory making military equipment.^[13]

February

• 8 February – Meta removes the Instagram accounts of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for violating its "Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy".^[14]
• 11 February – Two Basij members are killed in an attack on an outpost in Sistan and Baluchestan province.^[15]
• 14 February – Explosions occurred along the route of a natural gas pipeline spanning from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province to the Caspian Sea. Officials blamed the incident on "terrorism and sabotage".^[16]
• 17 February – Twelve people are killed after a man opens fire on his relatives during a family dispute at a village in Kerman province.^[17]

March

• 1 March –
  • Grammy winner Shervin Hajipour is sentenced to jail and ordered to write anti-American music.^[18]
  • 2024 Iranian legislative election: Voter turnout reaches its the lowest levels recorded since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.^[19]
• 7 March – Iran confiscates the cargo of the American oil tanker Advantage Sweet in response to US-led sanctions restricting the sale of medication for epidermolysis bullosa to Iran.^[20]
• 8 March – A UN fact-finding mission probe finds that human rights violations committed by the Iranian government amount to crimes against humanity.^[21]
• 29 March – Pouria Zeraati, an anti-Iranian regime journalist working for Iran International, is stabbed by a unidentified attackers in London. He is taken to hospital, where he is in stable condition.^[22]

April

• 1 April – 2024 Iranian consulate airstrike in Damascus: An Israeli airstrike targeting the Iranian embassy in Damascus kills eight IRGC members, including brigadier general Mohammad Reza Zahedi.^[23]
• 4 April – Eleven IRGC officers and 16 militants are killed and ten other members of the security forces are injured in attacks by Jaish al-Adl in Chabahar and Rask, Sistan and Baluchestan.^[24]
• 9 April – Six police officers are killed and two others are injured in an attack on their convoy in Sistan and Baluchestan.^[25]
• 11 April – Lufthansa halts their flights to Tehran, after Iran closes its airspace.^[26]
  • US President Joe Biden says that Iran is threatening to launch a significant attack against Israel and promises Israel US support.^[27]
• 13 April – U.S. naval ships mobilize to the Middle East to protect Israel against incoming missiles from Iran.^[28]
  • United States intelligence reports Iran moving drones and missiles internally ahead of a potential attack.^[29]
  • Australian airline Qantas pauses its non-stop Perth-London route due to expected Iranian attack against Israel.^[30]
  • Iran seizes the MSC Aries, a Portuguese-registered, Madeira-flagged container ship leased by MSC from Gortal Shipping, which is an affiliate of Zodiac Maritime,^[31] whose principal is an Israeli.^[32]
  • 2024 Iranian strikes in Israel: Iran launches between 400 and 500 drones and cruise missiles at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, southern Lebanon, and Yemen.^[33]
  • The Netherlands announces that their embassy in Tehran will close on Sunday.^[34]
• 15 April – Japan raises its four-stage danger ranking level for most of Iran, including Tehran, to Level 3, which urges to avoid all travel to Iran^[35] following the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus of 1 April and the 2024 Iranian strikes in Israel of 13 April.^[36]
• 19 April –
  • Missiles believed to be fired by the Israel Defense Forces allegedly hit sites near the Iranian city of Isfahan, sites in Iraq and radar sites in Syria.^[37]
  • A man threatens to blow himself up near the Iranian Embassy in Paris, France, and is later arrested.^[38]

Deaths

• 1 January – Camila Batmanghelidjh, 61, Iranian-Belgian charity executive, founder of Kids Company.^[39]
• 7 January – Tofy Mussivand, 81, Iranian-Canadian medical engineer.^[40]
• 8 January – Shahla Lahiji, 81, writer.^[41]
• 11 January – Fariyar Aminipour, 23, Muay Thai fighter.^[42]
• 15 January – Karim Mojtahedi, 93, philosopher.^[43]
• 20 January – Sadegh Omidzadeh, Iranian intelligence officer (Quds Force).^[44]
• 23 January – Mohammad Ghobadloo, 23, Iranian political activist.^[45]
• 28 January – Abdul-Nabi Namazi, 75–76, Twelver Shia cleric and politician, prosecutor-general (2001–2004) and member of the Assembly of Experts (since 1990).^[46]

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