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May 2009
Iran rejects a US state department report saying it remains the “most active state sponsor of terrorism” in the world.
Jailed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is freed and returns to the US.
23 May
Iranian government temporarily blocks access to Facebook across the country, apparently in response to the use of the site by candidates running against the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Access restored three days later.
1 June
A campaign office of main rival Mir Hossein Mousavi in the city of Qum, north-west Iran is set on fire. No group claims responsibility for the attack. At the same time, it was reported an assassination had been attempted against former president Mohammad Khatami.
12 June
Election day. Mobile phone communications interrupted in Tehran and “heavy electronic jamming” being used to halt BBC broadcasts, it is claimed.
13 June
Iran's electoral commission declares Mr Ahmadinejad to have won a resounding victory. Mousavi says there have been violations and dismisses the result as a “dangerous charade”.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says all Iranians, including the losing candidates, must support President Ahmadinejad.
Clashes between police and protesters. Angry crowds in Tehran break into shops, tearing down signs and smashing windows and protesters demonstrate outside Iranian embassy in London.
14 June
Mousavi lodges an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council
15 June
At least one man killed and several others wounded when government troops open fire on hundreds of thousands of protesters marching in Tehran.
Iran's supreme leader orders investigation into the claims of vote fraud having previously labelled Mr Ahmadinejad's victory a “divine assessment”.
President Barrack Obama says he is “deeply troubled” by post-election violence in Iran.
