Timeline of the 2009 Iranian election protests Timeline of the 2009 Iranian election protests Following the 2009 Iranian presidential election, protests against alleged electoral fraud and in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi occurred in Tehran and other major cities in Iran and around the world starting after the disputed presidential election on 2009 June 12 and continued even after the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as President of Iran on 5 August 2009. This is a timeline of the events which occurred during those protests. In what had become the worst civil unrest in Iran in over a decade, clashes broke out between police
Hayat-e-No the presidential election, the paper along with other reformist papers, including "Aftab Yazd" and "Eqbal", published the letter of presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi to Ali Khamenei. Upon this publication the papers were banned for one day by Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court. "Hayat-e-No" supported Mir Hossein Mousavi in the 2009 presidential elections held in June. In the immediate aftermath of the elections the paper was censored by the Iranian government. In December 2009 the license of the paper was revoked by the Press Supervisory Board “for working outside the regulations” and on 7 December it was closed down. "Hayat-e-No" and