The following lists events that happened during 1948 in Pahlavi Iran.
Incumbents Shah: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Prime Minister: Ebrahim Hakimi (until June 13), Abdolhossein Hazhir (June 13 – November 9), Mohammad Sa'ed (starting November 9)
Events Insurgency in Balochistan. Iran at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Births January 3 – Kamran Qadakchian, Iranian film director. January 5 – Khosro Haghgosha, cyclist. January 8 – Reza Mansouri, Iranian physicist. January 14 – Nasrollah Mardani, Iranian poet. February 2 – Aziz Espandar, Iranian footballer. February 7 – Majid Halvaei, Iranian association football player. February 24 – Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Iranian writer, author of the novel The Saddlebag. February 25 – Parvaneh Etemadi, Iranian painter. March 7 – Majid Jahanpour, Iranian association football player. March 11 – Shahram Shabpareh, Iranian pop singer and former actor. March 21 – Ayoub Bodaghi, Iranian athletics competitor. March 22 – Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1948), association football player. March 25 – Mehdi Asgarkhani, Iranian footballer. April 4 – Hossein Kazerani, Iranian footballer. April 4 – Jila Mossaed, Iranian-Swedish author. April 10 – Abdolhamid Fathi, Iranian fencer. May 18 – Mohsen Nourbakhsh, Iranian politician. May 19 – Ali Nobakht, professor. May 22 – Sarkis Assadourian (fencer), Iranian fencer. May 31 – Kambiz Yeganegi. June 12 – Sadegh Zibakalam, Iranian academician. June 16 – Mansour Sattari, Iranian military man. July 13 – Rasoul Montajabnia, Iranian politician. July 14 – Marjan (singer), Iranian singer and actress. July 27 – Mohsen Safaei Farahani, Iranian politician. August 7 – Firouzeh Vokhshouri, Jordanian princess. August 7 – Sadreddin Hejazi, Iranian actor. August 15 – Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian Ayatollah. August 18 – Massoud Rajavi, Iranian political activist. August 20 – Yahya Rahmat-Samii, American engineer. September 24 – Mahmoud Khordbin, Iranian footballer. October 11 – Mehrdad Abedi, Electric machinery researcher. October 18 – Hassan Arianfard, cyclist. October 27 – Faramarz Assef, Iranian singer. November 12 – Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran from 2013 to 2021. November 23 – Morteza Alviri, Iranian politician. December 1 – Mohammad Reza Navaei, Iranian amateur wrestler. December 8 – Habib Fatahi, Iranian amateur wrestler. December 10 – Masoud Jafari Jozani, Iranian filmmaker. December 20 – Azar Nafisi, Iranian-American writer.
Deaths March 4 – Fatemeh Sayyah, Iranian essayist. December 31 – Ghaffar Djalal, Iranian diplomat. ? – Mohammad-Hosayn Ayrom, Iranian general. ? – Muhammad Amin al-Imami al-Khu'i, Iranian Islamic jurist and writer.
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