| Ambassador of Iran to Morocco | |
|---|---|
| Persian: سفیر ایران در مراکش بود | |
 Coat of Arms of Iran | |
| Inaugural holder | Morteza Gholi Ghadimi Navai |
| Formation | 1958 |
| Final holder | Mohammed Taqi Moayed |
| Abolished | May 1, 2018 |
The Iranian ambassador in Rabat was the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Morocco.
Direction of the Embassy:
| Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Persian language | Observations | Note (typography) | List of presidents of Iran | List of rulers of Morocco | Term end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Morteza Gholi Ghadimi Navai | Persian : مرتضی قدیمی نوایی | In 1971 he was Iranian ambassador to Tunisia | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Mohammed V of Morocco | 1961 | |
| 1961 | Rokneddin Ashtiani | Persian : رکنالدین آشتیانی | In 1971 he was Iranian ambassador to Lebanon | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | ||
| October 12, 1967 | Ahmed Ali Bahrami | Persian : احمدعلی بهرامی |
| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | 1970 | |
| January 25, 1972 | Abbas Nayyeri | Persian : عباس نیری | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | |||
| 1971 | Massoud Foroughi | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | ||||
| January 1, 1976 | Farhad Sepahbody | Sepahbody was at his post when the Shah and his entourage arrived in Rabat from Aswan a week after flying out of Iran at the height of the Ruhollah Khomeini-led Iranian Revolution. After the fall of the monarchy in February 1979 and the execution of his cousin, the former Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda by the new Tehran regime, Sepahbody resigned from the foreign ministry and settled in New York City with his wife, Angela.(Dr. Cyrus J. Sepahbody, son of Ambassador Farhad and Angela Sepahbody of Sedona, Ariz.) | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | April 7, 1979 | ||
| January 22, 1979 | Notre ami le roi granted asylum to the Sha Inshallah in Marrakesh. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | March 30, 1979 | |||
| January 22, 1979 | Iranian embassies in the Gulf, the US, and elsewhere have almost all removed pictures of the Shah and declared their support for the Bazargan government (see KUWAIT). In Rabat, several Iranian embassy staff declared their support for Khomeini, but ambassador Farhad Sepahbodi, was said to be still supporting the Shah. The Iranian monarch is on an "extended holiday" in Morocco. (Middle East economic digest) | [1] | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Hassan II of Morocco | March 30, 1979 | ||
| January 30, 1982 | In January 1981, Iran severed diplomatic relations with Jordan and Morocco because of their support of Iraq in the Iran–Iraq War. Iran Severance of Relations With Jordan, Morocco Lauded Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 5 Feb 1981, Tehran cut ties with Rabat when King Hassan II decided to give asylum to the U.S.-backed Shah, who had been forced into exile after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 – when Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran and established an Islamic Republic. Morocco (Diplomatic relations broken January 81, relations restored, December 91) Head of Interest Section | Abolhassan Banisadr | Hassan II of Morocco | December 30, 1991 | |||
| November 1, 1988 | Ali Asghar Khaji | Persian : علی اصغر خجی | Head of Interest Sectionm | [2] | Ali Khamenei | Hassan II of Morocco | February 1, 1991 |
| December 1, 1991 | 1991 relations restored, 10361 Morocco-Iran Prisoners Freed Tehran freed six Moroccans captured in the 1980-88 Iran–Iraq War war on ... Tehran radio said the men were handed over to Morocco's Charge d' Affaires, Hassan Daoud, who said the release would help expand the two Muslim countries' relations. | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Hassan II of Morocco | ||||
| For the first time since the shah's administration, Iran appointed an ambassador to Morocco at a time that coincided with the deterioration of its relations with Algeria at the end of last year. Morocco responded to the "goodwill initiative" and King Hassan II received the new Iranian ambassador at the end of January 1 993, thus ending the 14-year | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Hassan II of Morocco | |||||
| 1995 | Jafar Shamsian | Persian : جعفر شمسیان | Iranian Ambassador in Rabat, Ja'far Shamsiyan, invited Moroccan economic operators, Iranian ambassador to Maghreb, Ja far Shamsiyan | [3] | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Hassan II of Morocco | October 1, 1996 |
| Hosein Sobhani-Nia | Persian : حسین سبحانی نیا | [4] | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Hassan II of Morocco | January 1, 1998 | ||
| 1999 | Mohammad Reza Bakhtiari | Persian : محمدرضا بختیاری | Mohammad Khatami | Mohammed VI of Morocco | 2003 | ||
| 2003 | Mohammad Masjed Jamei | Persian : محمد مسجدجامعی | Mohammad Khatami | Mohammed VI of Morocco | 2005 | ||
| Wahid Ahmadi | Persian : أحمدي وحيد | the liberal e-journal www.elaph.com, the expelled Iranian ambassador to Morocco Vahid Ahmadi denied the Rabat accused Iranian ambassador of seeking to spread Shia Islam in the Sunni kingdom. Morocco severs ties with Iran On 7 March, the In 2009, Rabat broke diplomatic links with Tehran after an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran had sovereign rights over Bahrain., In 2009, Morocco expelled Iran's ambassador and shut down several Iranian schools, charging that Iranians were | [5] | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Mohammed VI of Morocco | March 7, 2009 | |
| February 1, 2014 | re-normalization of relations since February 2014 | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed VI of Morocco | ||||
| December 29, 2014 | Mohammed Taqi Moayed | Persian : محمدتقی مؤید | On December 22, 2014, Iran appointed Mohammed Taqi Moayed as ambassador to Rabat.
| [6] | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed VI of Morocco | May 1, 2018 |
| June 26, 2015 | Rabat - Morocco's Foreign Ministry summoned, here Friday, Iranian Chargé d'Affaires in Rabat after the Revolutionary Guards' outlet of Fars News published a "defamatory" article against Morocco. | [7] | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed VI of Morocco | |||
| October 1, 2016 | Morocco restored its diplomatic relations with Iran, Jun 24, 2017 - Morocco restored its diplomatic relations with Iran last October, after more than six years of severed ties due to Iran's conflict with Bahrain. Morocco's decision to send food aid to Qatar, which came only days after the king offered to mediate between the parties, demonstrates that the country has learned its lesson from its hasty 2009 decision to sever relations with Iran because of Bahrain. | [8] | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed VI of Morocco | |||
| December 14, 2016 | Hassan Hami as Ambassador to Iran | The same day, Morocco's Ambassador to Iran, Hassan Hami, departed the country and returned to Morocco. | [9] | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed VI of Morocco | May 1, 2018 | |
| May 1, 2018 | Chargé d'affaires, Morocco's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it will close its embassy in Tehran and expel the Iranian ambassador in Rabat over Iran's support for Polisario. Morocco's expulsion of Iranian Charge d’Affairs.According to some Arab media, Bourita also demanded that Iran Chargé d'affaires Mohammad Taqi Moayed leave Morocco. | [10] | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed VI of Morocco |
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