2005 in Iran

Incumbents

• Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
• President: Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Vice President: Mohammad-Reza Aref, Parviz Davoodi
• Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

  Events

• Since 2004 until 2005 – Canada evokes its ambassador to Iran and in 2005 restates that until Iran has the same opinion to a global inquiry into Zahra Kazemi’s death, Canada will not restart political relations with Iran.
• February 14 – Around 59 people were killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
• February 22 – The 6.4 Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, killing 612 and injuring 1,411.
• April 18 – Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
• August 3 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes office as the 6th President of Iran.
• October 26 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns peace process. MEMRI translated Ahmadinejad's words differently: "Imam said: 'This regime that is occupying Qods must be eliminated from the pages of history.' This sentence is very wise. The issue of Palestine is not an issue on which we can compromise.".
• December 6 – An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building – a total of 128 people.

  Notable births

Notable deaths

• April 12 – Shahrokh Meskoob, 81, Iranian Man of letters, writer, translator, scholar and university professor.
• May 18 – Denis Wright, 94, British diplomat. A long-serving ambassador to Iran. He was a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
• June 2 – Mohammad Derakhshesh, 90, essayist, minister of education in Ali Amini’s Cabinet editor of Mehregān, an anti-Islamic Republic of Iran journal.
• August 2 – Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.
• October 24 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, 77, Iranian painter.
• July 9 – Karim Emami, 75, Iranian translator, editor, lexicographer, and literary critic.