Events
- February 4 – Iran launches the Kavoshgar-1 research rocket to inaugurate a newly built space center.
- March 14 – Iranian voters go to the polls in legislative election. Nearly 90 percent of reformist candidates have been disqualified from the election.
- March 16 – The Conservative Alliance wins the Iranian legislative election.
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“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
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