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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes the sixth president of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins a run-off vote in presidential elections, defeating cleric and former president. He was Tehran's ultimate-conservative mayor. This is significant, because it reflects the regian of power of the Conservatives. -
Iran breaks IAEA seals
Iran announced a resumption of nuclear fuel research and its end its cooperation with IAEA. However, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Mohammad Saeedi, sated: "What we [have resumed] is merely in the field of research, not more than that." The resumption of research on the Natanz site suggests all of Iran's nuclear activities, apart from uranium enrichment - a key stage in making a nuclear bomb - have been revived. -
IAEA votes to report Iran to the UN Security Council.
IAEA votes to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities for its non-compliance with its NPT (Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Safeguards Agreement obligations. Iran resumes uranium enrichment at Natanz. -
The U.N Security Council passed a resolution
The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Iran suspend its uranium facility activities within one month. The resolution warned that "appropriate measures" would be taken in the case of Iranian non-compliance. -
Iran's Poor Production
UN Security Council deadline for Iran to halt its work on nuclear fuel passes. IAEA says Iran failed to meet a deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, exposing Tehran to possible new sanctions. -
Iran denies the Holocaust
The "International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust" opened to widespread condemnation. The conference was also widely described as, "Holocaust denial conference", though Iran insitsted the title. A few months before it opened, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi stated: "The Holocaust is not a sacred issue that one can't touch. I have visited the Nazi camps in Eastern Europe. I think it is exaggerated." -
Evidence of Halting Nuclear Weapon Production Found
A U.S.National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear activities said there was evidence that Tehran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003. It assessed with “moderate confidence” that Iran had not re-started its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007. The findings contradicted the 2005 U.S. intelligence assessment that Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons capability. -
President Ahmadinejad visits Iraq.
President Ahmadinejad makes an abrupt official visit to Iraq, where he calls on foreign troops to leave. He also claim the government to help rebuilding Iraq and sign a number of cooperation agreements. -
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant
Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran In 2008 Iran opened its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr on the Persian gulf coast. -
The Conservative power dominates.
Conservatives win over two-thirds of seats in parliamentary elections. The conservatives members varied from President Ahmadinejad supporters to pragmatic conservatives who opposed the president's bellicose foreign policy. -
Ali Kordan removed from office
Oxford Degree
The Parliament voted to dismiss Ali Kordan who at the time was the interior minister who admitted that his degree from Oxford university was a fake. -
Center for Defenders of Human Rights is closed
Shirin Ebadi is a former human rights activist who faught for the rights of women and children in Iran and opened Center for Defenders of Human Rights that was a non-governmental organization. In 2008 on the 16th anniversary of the Declaration of human rights, Iranian authorities without a court order barged into her office and closed downthe organization. They took away all the computers and files that the organization possessed. The persian writing means "Women should have same rights as men" -
30th Anniversary of Islamic Revolution
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution of Iran, President Ahmadinejad offficially stated he would welcome talks with the US as long as they are based on "mutual respect". -
Roxana Saberi sent to prison
Roxana Saberi was found guilty of spying for the US. She was sent to eight years in prison. -
Roxana Saberi is released from prison and returns to the U.S
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Uranium Facility near Qom in Iran
Iran admits that it is building a uranium faciliity at Fordow, near Qom. Western officials strongly rebuked Iran for not disclosing the site earlier; U.S. President Barack Obama said that Fordow had been under U.S. control However, insists it is for peaceful purposes: production of UF6 enriched up to 5% U-235, and that the facility was being built to contain 16 cascades, with a total of approximately 3000 centrifuges. -
Death of Masoud Alimohammadi
An Iranian physics professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed in a bomb attack in Tehran. The government accused the US and Israel for his death as no group claimed responsibility within the country. Iranian opposition groups said that Mr Mohammadi supported one of their candidates in the 2009 Presidential Elections. -
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
After her release from prison Roxana Saberi wrote a book where she described her experiences in Iran. In her book she speaks out for the "prisoners of conscience" and the Iranians who were detained in the after the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections. -
Attack on Shia mosque in Zahedan
Suicide bombers attacked the Shia mosque targeting the Revolutinary guards and killed 27 people and put many more in hospitals. The Shia mosque located in Zahedan is near the Pakistanian border. -
Woman killed by stoning
International outcry as a woman was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. -
Iranian warships enter the Suez Canal
BBC Article The first of many mass opposition demonstrations begin a time of unrest across the Middle East and North Africa.
Iran sent two warships through the Suez Canal for the first time since the Islamic Revolution. Israel described this action as an act of provocation. -
Traces of Nuclear Weaponary
A recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, based on the intelligence of 10 governments, presented images, letters and diagrams that suggested Iran was secretly working on nuclear weaponry. Iran's envoy to the IAEA says any nuclear development is for peaceful means and that the material evidence against has been fabricated by the US. -
Protesters attack the UK Embassy
Attack on the UK Embassy After London imposed tighter economic sanctions protesters attacked the British embassy in Tehran. After that Britain evacuated all of its diplomatic staff and expeled all Iranian diplomats. -
Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmandinejad supporters
Starting in March all thorugh May the supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei beat those of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in parliamentary polls boycotted by pro-reform groups. -
UN Nuclear inspectors find traces of Uranium enriched at Fordo
Inclusive talks took place in Baghdad between Iran and world powers to discuss Iran's nuclear porgramme. UN nuclear inspectors found traces of Uranium enriched at 27% at the Fordo nuclear site after the Baghdad talks. -
US - Ayatollah Khamenei relations
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader dismissed the offer presented by the Us for one-to-one talks about the nuclear programme in Tehran. He claims that the US is “pointing a gun at Iran” by imposing restrictions on Iran’s access to its oil revenues and its state run media. -
Iran to sue US Oscar winning film
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Shahab-3 tests
A new version of the Shahab-3 (a long-range missile) is being tested by Iran. They claim it is capable of hitting targets in Israel.
