title: 2008 in Iran
text: # 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.
  