1946 in Iran

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1946; Years in Iran

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

Incumbents

January 19 – The United Nations Security Council took up a formal by Iran against the Soviet Union, for the Soviet occupation of Iranian Azerbaijan.^[1]
January 22 – A Kurdish nation, the Republic of Mahabad, was proclaimed in the north of Iran by Qazi Muhammad, who became president.^[2]
January 26 – Ahmad Qavam was elected by the Majlis of Iran as the new prime minister with a vote of 51.^[3]

^ Stephen Ryan, The United Nations and International Politics (Macmillan, 2000), p34
^ David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds (I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp244–245
^ "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