The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Imperial State of Iran.

Incumbents

Shah Shāh (; ) is a royal title meaning "king" in the Persian language.Yarshater, Ehsa, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII, no. 1 (1989) Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to refer to the leaders of numerous Per ...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last List of monarchs of Iran, Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown by the ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

: Ebrahim Hakimi (until January 28), Ahmad Qavam (starting January 28)

Events

January

* January 19 – The

United Nations Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...

took up a formal by Iran against the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

, for the Soviet occupation of Iranian Azerbaijan. * January 22 – A Kurdish nation, the Republic of Mahabad, was proclaimed in the north of Iran by

Qazi Muhammad Qazi Muhammad (, ; 1 May 1893 – 31 March 1947) was an Iranian Kurdish Islamic cleric and political leader who founded the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and was the first president of the short-lived, Soviet-backed, though in ...

, who became president. * January 26 – Ahmad Qavam was elected by the

Majlis of Iran The Islamic Consultative Assembly (), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the unicameral national legislative body of Iran. The parliament currently consists of 290 representatives, an ...

as the new prime minister with a vote of 51."Iran Chooses Premier in 51 to 50 Vote", ''Salt Lake Tribune'', January 27, 1946, p8; Manuucher Farmānfarmaian and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, ''Blood and Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah'' (Random House, 2005), p179

References

{{Year in Asia, 1946

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

Years of the 20th century in Iran 1940s in Iran