Iranian protesters ransack and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran following Saudi Arabia's execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr.[1]
The Prosecutor's Office for Media and Culture in Iran suspends the reformist newspaper Bahar for allegedly publishing propaganda against the regime.[2]
January 4 – Authorities arrest the professional soccer player Sosha Makani "after photographs published on social media showed him together with several women not wearing the Islamic hijab, as required by Iranian law."[3]
Iranian naval forces seize and detain two small U.S. vessels which "allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters." The 10 American sailors are held at an Iranian military base on Farsi Island and released the following day with their boats.[6]
Reformist journalist Reyhaneh Tabatabaei begins serving a one-year prison term at Tehran's Evin Prison for allegedly "spreading propaganda against the regime" through her journalistic activities.[7]
January 20 – "Iranian blogger and activist Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki return[s] to Evin Prison... to continue his 15-year sentence, despite his continuing ill health."[10]
February 10 – Iranian state television broadcasts new images and video of a U.S. sailor crying in custody from the incident in which Iran detained 10 American sailors on January 12. In response, the U.S. Navy says, "The detention of our personnel was outrageous and unacceptable."[12]
February 11 – Tens of thousands of Iranians chanting "Death to America and Israel" commemorate the 37th anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.[13]
