2003 in Iran

Events in the year 2003 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Incumbents

 * Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
 * President: Mohammad Khatami
 * Vice President: Mohammad-Reza Aref
 * Chief Justice: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

Events

 * October 21 - Iran agrees to suspend processing and enriching uranium and allow unannounced inspections by the IAEA.
 * November 12 - The IAEA finds no evidence of a nuclear program but expresses concern about plutonium production.
 * December 26 – The 6.6 Bam earthquake shook southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.

Notable births

 * Yasha Asley

Notable deaths

 * July 8 – Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins
 * September 6 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Mount Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.
 * July 11 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer murdered by the Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi. (b. 1949)