Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes after being shot down by Iranian missiles near Tehran shortly after take-off with 176 passengers and crew on board. All 176 passengers and crew died.[4]
January 9 – A bus crashes in Mazandaran Province, killing at least 20 passengers and injuring 24 others.
^Gambrell, Jon (June 27, 2020). "Satellite image: Iran blast was near suspected missile site". The Associated Press. The gas storage area sits near what analysts describe as Iran's Khojir missile facility. The explosion appears to have struck a facility for the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, which makes solid-propellant rockets
^Sanger, David E.; Bergman, Ronen; Fassihi, Farnaz (June 29, 2020). "After Iranian Missile Facility Blows Up, Conspiracy Theories Abound in Tehran". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Ronen Solomon of IntelliTimes, an intelligence blog, who was among the first to identify the Khojir missile facility as the site of the explosion, noted that it did "little damage." But he noted it was "a vast facility," and as part of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, it has been the target of American economic sanctions.
^Hafezi, Parisa (July 5, 2020). Georgy, Michael; Clarke, David (eds.). "Fire at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility caused significant damage: spokesman". Reuters. A fire at Iran's underground Natanz nuclear facility has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium, an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday. Iran's top security body said on Friday that the cause of the fire that broke out on Thursday had been determined but would be announced later.