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1962 in Iran

overview of Iran-related events during the year of 1962

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ19568301 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following lists events that happened during 1962 in Iran.

Incumbents

Shah: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Prime Minister: Ali Amini (until July 19), Asadollah Alam (starting July 19)

Events

1 September – the 7.1 ML Buin Zahra earthquake shook northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 12,225 and injuring 2,776.

Births

21 March – Farahnaz Bahrami, Norwegian politician

5 September – Masoumeh Abad, writer, university professor, politician and activist

14 September – Zahra Dowlatabadi.

19 December – Kamshad Kooshan.

Editorial summary

“1962 in Iran” enters the record as overview of Iran-related events during the year of 1962. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Iran, overview and Iran-related can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Iran, overview and Iran-related.
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“1962 in Iran” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Iran, overview and Iran-related provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19568301. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “1962 in Iran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.