January 5 – Iran bans its citizens from contact with 60 international organisations and media outlets over claims they conspired against the country.[1]
January 12 – Masoud Alimohammadi, an Iranian nuclear physics professor, is killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran; Iran state media accuses Israel and the United States of involvement.[3]
April 5 – Iran invites 60 countries to a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on April 17–18, entitled "Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one". China says it will attend the conference which invites "the world to disarm and prevent proliferation".[12]
July 9 – Iran announces that women convicted of adultery will no longer face stoning to death after international concern. They may, however, still face the death penalty.[17]
July 15 – July 2010 Zahedan bombings: More than 20 people are killed and 100 injured in a suicide attack at a mosque in southeastern Iran.[18]
August 27 – The 5.8 MwDamghan earthquake shook northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Four people were killed, 40 were injured, and 800 were made homeless.
September 22 – At least a dozen Iranians are killed and 81 are wounded in a bomb attack on a military parade in the Kurdish town of Mahabad according to reports from Iranian Arabic language television Al-Alam.[22]
September 28 – Iranian-Canadian bloggerHossein Derakhshan, the founder of one of the first Persian-language blogs, is sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in an Iranian court for "anti-state activity".[23]
November 29 – Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari is killed and his wife injured, while another scientist is wounded during two attacks in Tehran. Iran says Western governments and Israel may have carried out the killing.[27]
