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Events in the year 2024 in
Iran .
List of events
Incumbents
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
March
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]
13 April –
19 April –
May
June
Scheduled events
Deaths
1 January –
Camila Batmanghelidjh , 61, Iranian-Belgian charity executive, founder of
Kids Company .
[42]
7 January –
Tofy Mussivand , 81, Iranian-Canadian medical engineer.
[43]
8 January –
Shahla Lahiji , 81, writer.
[44]
11 January –
Fariyar Aminipour , 23,
Muay Thai fighter.
[45]
15 January –
Karim Mojtahedi , 93, philosopher.
[46]
20 January –
Sadegh Omidzadeh , intelligence officer (
Quds Force ).
[47]
23 January –
Mohammad Ghobadloo , 23, political activist.
[48]
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).
[49]
19 May –
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