2021_in_Iran
2021 in Iran
Iran-related events during the year of 2021
Events in the year 2021 in Iran.
- Supreme Leader of Iran: Ali Khamenei
- President of Iran: Hassan Rouhani (until 3 August), Ebrahim Raisi (from 3 August)
- Speaker of the Parliament: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
- Chief Justice: Ebrahim Raisi (until 1 July), Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i (from 1 July)
Ongoing - COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
- January 8
- Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei announced that Iran would ban the import of COVID-19 vaccines from France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and would instead obtain a vaccine from other countries.[1]
- August 5
- President-elect Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in as the new president of Iran.[2]
- 1 January – Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, 85, cleric and politician (b. 1935)
- 9 January - Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi, 72, weightlifter (b. 1948)
- 12 January - Mahmoud Kianoush, 86, poet (b. 1934)
- 27 January - Mehrdad Minavand, 45, footballer (b. 1975)
- 3 February - Ali Ansarian, 43, footballer (b. 1977)
- 15 February - Golnoush Khaleghi, 80, musician (b. 1941)
- 17 February - Iraj Kaboli, 82, writer (b. 1938)
- 18 February - Amir Aslan Afshar, 101, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
- 27 February - Nozar Azadi, 83, actor (b. 1938)
- 26 March - Azade Namdari, 36, TV host (b. 1984)
- 14 April - Mohsen Ghazi-Moradi, 80, actor (b. 1941)
- 15 April - Vartan Gregorian, 87, academic (b. 1934)
- 16 April - Nader Dastneshan, 60, football coach (b. 1960)
- 18 April - Mohammad Hejazi, 65, military commander (b. 1956)
- 26 April - Hamid Jasemian, 84, footballer (b. 1936)
- 10 May - Abdolvahab Shahidi, 98, singer (b. 1922)
- 16 May - Akbar Torkan, 68, politician (b. 1952)
- 25 May - Esmail Khoi, 82, poet (b. 1938)
- 7 June - Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, 73, politician (b. 1947)
- 7 June - Sasan Niknafs, 35, political prisoner (b. 1985)
- 11 June - Parviz Kardan, 84, actor (b. 1936)
- 23 June - Hamid Mojtahedi, 79, director (b. 1942)
- 15 July - Hamid Reza Sadr, 65, journalist (b. 1956)
- 28 July - Shahrum Kashani, 47, singer (b. 1974)
- 31 July - Jalal Sattari, 89, writer (b. 1931)
- 4 August - Arsha Aghdasi, 39, stuntman actor (b. 1982)
- 8 August - Alireza Azizi, 72, footballer (b. 1949)
- 12 August - Ali Soleimani, 50, actor (b. 1970)
- 16 August - Fereshteh Taerpour, 68, film producer (b. 1953)
- 16 August - Hormoz Farhat, 93, musician (b. 1928)
- 19 August - Parviz Kardevani, 90, geographer (b. 1931)
- 3 September - Hassan Firouzabadi, 70, military commander (b. 1951)
- 8 September - Abbas Ansarifard, 65, football administrator (b. 1956)
- 25 September - Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, 93, cleric (b. 1928)
- 30 September - Hassan Tarighat Monfared, 74, politician (b. 1946)
- 5 October - Fathali Oveisi, 75, actor (b. 1946)
- 7 October - Azartash Azarnoush, 83, scholar (b. 1938)
- 9 October - Abolhassan Banisadr, 88, politician (b. 1933)
- 27 October - Aramesh Dustdar, 90, philosopher (b. 1931)
- 29 October - Iran Darroudi, 85, painter (b. 1936)
- 2 November - Cyrus Amouzgar, 87, politician (b. 1934)
- 6 November - Kambiz Derambakhsh, 79, cartoonist (b. 1942)
- 8 November - Mahlagha Mallah, 104, environmental activist (b. 1917)
- 18 November - Ardeshir Zahedi, 93, politician (b. 1928)
- 20 December - Hasan Irlu, 61-62, diplomat (b. 1959)
- Hafezi, Parisa (January 8, 2021). "Iran leader bans import of US, UK COVID-19 vaccines, demands sanctions end". Reuters.
"Imports of U.S. and British vaccines into the country are forbidden ... They're completely untrustworthy. It's not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations," said Khamenei, the country's highest authority. "Given our experience with France's HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren't trustworthy either," Khamenei said, referring to the country's contaminated blood scandal of the 1980s and 1990s.
- Fassihi, Farnaz (5 August 2021). "A New President Takes Office in Iran, Solidifying Hard-Line Control". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2021.