| Ambassador of Iran to Egypt | |
|---|---|
| Persian: سفیر جمهوری اسلامی ایران در مصر | |
 Coat of Arms of Iran | |
| Inaugural holder | Mirza Malkam Khan |
| Formation | 1863 |
| Final holder | Abbas Nayeri |
| Abolished | March 26, 1978 |
The Iranian ambassador in Cairo was the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Egypt.
| Diplomatic accreditation | Diplomatic accreditation Solar Hijri calendar | Ambassador | Persian language | Observations | List of presidents of Iran | List of heads of state of Egypt | Term end | Term end Solar Hijri calendar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1863 | 1241 | Mirza Malkam Khan | Persian : ملکم خان ناظم‌الدوله | From 1863 until 1885 a series of consuls were appointed by the Persian ambassador to Istanbul to serve in Egypt for short periods before returning to Istanbul; one of them was the Persian constitutionalist Mālkom (Malcolm) Khan in 1279/1863 (Algar, p. 63). [1] | Naser al-Din Shah Qajar | Isma'il Pasha | 1863 | 1241 |
| 1884 | 1262 | Moḥammad Khan Sarhang | Persian : اسحاق خان مفخم‌الدوله | In 1884 the Persian ambassador, Ḥājī Moḥammad Khan Sarhang, took residence in Cairo. | Naser al-Din Shah Qajar | Tewfik Pasha | ||
| February 28, 1922 | 1300 | Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence | Ahmad Shah Qajar | Fuad I of Egypt | February 28, 1922 | 1300 | ||
| February 28, 1922 | 1300 | Fathullah Khan Pakravan (1865) | Persian : فتح‌الله خان امیرارفع | Mirza Fattalah Khan Amirarafi Iranian writer was working on the Iranian representation in Egypt. | Ahmad Shah Qajar | Fuad I of Egypt | 1925 | 1303 |
| 1925 | 1303 | Ghaffar Djalal | Persian : غفار جلال علاء | Reza Shah | Fuad I of Egypt | 1928 | 1306 | |
| 1931 | 1309 | Mahmoud Djam | Persian : جواد سینکی | Javad Sinki | Reza Shah | Fuad I of Egypt | 1934 | 1312 |
| 1934 | 1312 | Ali Akbar Bahman | Persian : سلطان‌احمد راد | Sultan Ahmad Rad | Reza Shah | Fuad I of Egypt | 1939 | 1317 |
| 1939 | 1317 | Mahmoud Djam | Persian : جواد سینکی | Reza Shah | Farouk of Egypt | 1943 | 1321 | |
| 1939 | 1317 | Ali Akbar Bahman | Persian : علی‌اکبر بهمن | Ali Akbar Bahman (Promotion of Embassy to Cobra Embassy) February 17, 1317 - March 1320 | Reza Shah | Farouk of Egypt | 1942 | 1320 |
| 1942 | 1320 | Mahmoud Djam | Persian : محمود جم | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Farouk of Egypt | 1948 | 1326 | |
| January 17, 1948 | 1326 | Ghasem Ghani | Persian : قاسم غنی | From 1949 to 1950 he was Iranian ambassador to Turkey He had studied medicine for four years in Paris and had been Professor of Medicine at Tehran University. [2] | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Farouk of Egypt | 1949 | 1327 |
| 1949 | 1327 | Ali Dashti | Persian : علی دشتی | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Farouk of Egypt | 1952 | 1330 | |
| 1952 | 1330 | Masoud Moazed | Persian : مسعود معاضد | [3] | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Farouk of Egypt | 1954 | 1332 |
| 1954 | 1332 | Anoushirvan Sepahbadi | Persian : انوشیروان سپهبدی | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Mohamed Naguib | 1959 | 1337 | |
| 1959 | 1337 | Jamshid Gharib | Persian : جمشید قریب | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 1961 | 1339 | |
| 1960 | The cessation of relations between Iran and Egypt followed the recognition of Israel by Mohammad Reza Shah. In 1960, he recognized Israel's right to exist and publicly declared that Israel and Iran should maintain economic ties. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Gamal Abdel Nasser | |||||
| 1971 | 1349 | Khosrow Khosravani | Persian : خسرو خسروانی | Khosrow Khosravani from May 11, 1965 to 19676 he was Iranian ambassador to the United States, Egypt, Germany, and also represents the former government of Iran at the United Nations. He was born in 1293 in Mahallat. After completing elementary and secondary education, she went to England to continue her education and entered Birmingham University and completed her postgraduate degree in geology. After some time at the State Department, he served as the first secretary of the Iranian embassy to the US capital, Washington, and the following year; in 1332, he became Iran's representative to the United Nations, and then to Iran's Consul General in Hamburg. After a while, he became Iran's Minister of Planning in Washington, and afterwards, as he improved relations between Iran and Egypt, he went to Cairo as Ambassador to Iran. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Anwar as-Sadat | 1976 | 1354 |
| 1976 | 1354 | Shapur Bahrami | Persian : شاپور بهرامی | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Anwar as-Sadat | 1978 | 1356 | |
| March 26, 1978 | 1356 | Abbas Nayeri | Persian : عباس نیری | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Anwar as-Sadat | 1979 | 1357 | |
| 1979 | 1356 | Cessation of Iran-Egypt Relations Following the Islamic Revolution | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Anwar as-Sadat | ||||
| 1979 | 1356 | The two governments have interest offices on the territory of each other. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Anwar as-Sadat | ||||
| May 1979 | Interest Section in the Swiss embassy in Cairo | Egypt: relations broken May 1979. Interest Office closed May 87, in early 1985, Egyptian security forces uncovered an Iran-sponsored underground Islamist group, as evidence of the Iranian link with Islamic movement in Egypt were photographs of Ruhollah Khomeini presented. The two remaining Iranian diplomats in Cairo had been accused of collaborating with Islamic groups, expelled, and the Iranian Interest Section at the Cairo Swiss Embassy was summarily shut down. [4] | Ali Khamenei | Hosni Mubarak | May 1987 | |||
| March 21, 1991 | Behzar Khatiri | 21 March 1991 The Foreign Ministry received the information from the Iranian Foreign Ministry that Mr. (Behzar Khatiri) will head the Iranian interests office [5] | Mohammad Khatami | Hosni Mubarak | ||||
| 2004 | Mohammed Reza Dost | 2004: Maher Abdel Wahed told a news conference on December 7 that Mohammed Reza Dost, a diplomat at the Iranian interest office in Cairo, was referred to trial on charges of recruiting Egyptian Mohammed Eid Dabbous to gather information. | Mohammad Khatami | Hosni Mubarak |
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