List of ambassadors of Iran to Switzerland

Ambassador of Iran to Switzerland
Persian: سفیر ایران در سوییس
Coat of Arms of Iran
Incumbent Mahmoud Barimani since April 4, 2023 [1]
Inaugural holder	Abolhassan Foroughi  [ de ]
Formation	1919

The Iranian ambassador in Bern is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Switzerland.

List of representatives

Diplomatic accreditation	Diplomatic accreditation (Solar Hijri calendar)	Ambassador	Persian language	Observations	List of presidents of Iran	List of presidents of the Swiss Confederation	Term end	Term end (Solar Hijri calendar)
1919	1298	Ghaffari Zaka  [ de ]	Persian : سهام الدین غفاری ذکاء الدوله	Chargé d'affaires	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Gustave Ador
1924	1303	Ghaffari Zaka  [ de ]	Persian : سهام الدین غفاری ذکاء الدوله	envoy Ghaffari, Amir Saham-od-Din (Zuka-ud-Dauleh) Born in Tehran about 1880. The second ... Appointed Persian Minister in Berne 1919–22. Did not venture to return to Persia till the Pahlavi regime was well established in 1931. [2]	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Ernest Chuard
1924	1303	Hedayat Mostafa Quli  [ de ]	Persian : مصطفی قلی هدایت فهیم الدوله	Chargé d'affaires Kardar [3]	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Ernest Chuard	1927	1306
1929	1308	Anoushirvan Sepahbodi	Persian : انوشیروان سپهبدی		Reza Shah	Robert Haab	1933	1312
1934	1313	Abolhassan Foroughi  [ de ]	Persian : أبو الحسن فروغي	Abolhassan Foroughi Abolhasan Foroughi, Iranian educator and author and younger brother of Mohammad Ali Foroughi Mirza Abulhasan Froughi (1884 - 9. February 1960)	Reza Shah	Marcel Pilet-Golaz	1934	1313
1934	1317	Nasrollah Entezam	Persian : نصرالله انتظام	Chargé d'affaires [4]	Reza Shah	Marcel Pilet-Golaz	1938	1319
1935	1313	Mostafa Adl	Persian : مصطفی عدل		Reza Shah	Rudolf Minger	1939	1317
1941	1320	Hossein Ghadimi Navaei	Persian : حسین قدیمی نوائی	Chargé d'affaires	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Ernst Wetter	April 25, 1945	1324
December 4, 1945	1327	Abol Ghassem Pourévaly  [ de ]	Persian : ابوالقاسم	envoy	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Eduard von Steiger	1947	1330
June 29, 1948	1327	Abolghassem Forouhar	Persian : ابوالقاسم فروهر		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Enrico Celio	August 7, 1951	1330
1951	1330	Abdul-Hussein Meykadeh	Persian : عبدالحسین میکده		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Eduard von Steiger	1953	1332
November 6, 1953	1332	Abolghassem Forouhar	Persian : ابوالقاسم فروهر	On April 20, 1957, the mission was upgraded to an embassy.	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Philipp Etter	1957	1336
August 7, 1951	1336	Mohammad Ali Homayoundjah	Persian : هرمز قریب		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Hans Streuli	November 5, 1953	1341
May 4, 1956	1341	Abolghassem Forouhar	Persian : محمود فروغی		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Markus Feldmann	1962	1341
October 21, 1957	1342	Hormoz Gharib	Persian : جمشید قریب		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Hans Streuli	1963	1344
1963	1341	Djamchid Gharib	Persian : قریب	Djamchid Gharib spent a large part of his diplomatic career in Turkey, where he was our ambassador, before he retired. In 1978, while spending his summer holidays there - for he knew the country perfectly and had many, Turkish, personal friends - he was told, by the two highest authorities in the Turkish government, Washington was preparing a coup, in Iran, involving certain religious leaders; and they begged Djamchid Gharib to tell the Shah "that he ought not to trust the Americans". Secular Turkey was worried about the possibility of a democratic government being installed in Iran. It was an important message, and, as soon as he returned to Tehran, Gharib asked for an audience with the Shah. He was kept waiting - he no longer had any official position, after all. He confided his information to Hoveyda, who offered to act as an intermediary. Gharib declined this offer, and, several days later, his persistence paid off. He was received, and relayed his message, in detail, to the King, including the identities of his informants. The Shah, annoyed, asked him, "whom have you told about this conversation of yours, in Ankara?" "The Minister to the Court asked about my business," the former diplomat, "and I declined to reveal it; but I said a word or two, without the least detail, to Nahavandi, and to my son-in-law, Doctor Shirvani, "Shirvani was a professor at Tehran University and an elected Deputy. "Forget this for ever," snapped the Shah commandingly, "and tell them to forget it too, for it's no more than drawing-room chatter!"[ citation needed ]	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Willy Spühler	1965	1343
September 10, 1965	1344	Majid Rahnema	Persian : مجید رهنما		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Hans-Peter Tschudi	1967	1346
January 30, 1968	1346	Hossein Ali Loghman Adham	Persian : حسینعلی لقمان ادهم		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Roger Bonvin	November 5, 1953	1349
January 8, 1971	1349	Mahmoud Esfandiary	Persian : محمود اسفندیاری		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Rudolf Gnägi	1975	1354
1975	1354	Abbas Montasser	Persian : سید مرتضی میرعلی مرتضایی		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Pierre Graber	1978	1357
January 9, 1976	1357	Assadollah Fahimi	Persian : اسدالله فهیمی	until the first Islamic revolution	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Rudolf Gnägi	1978	1357
May 1, 1979	1358	Mahmoud Lavassani	Persian : محمود لواسانی	Chargé d'affaires	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Hans Hürlimann	1979	1358
1979	1358	Gholam-Ali Fariwar-Tehrani	Persian : غلامعلی فریور تهر		Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Hans Hürlimann	1980	1359
1980	1359	Sa'id Amir Divani	Persian : سعید امیر دیوانی	Chargé d'affaires [5]	Abolhassan Banisadr	Georges-André Chevallaz	1981	1360
1981	1360	Mohammad Ali Nematollahi	Persian : علی نعمت اللهی		Abolhassan Banisadr	Kurt Furgler	1986	1365
1986	1365	Mohammed Hossein Malaek	Persian : محمد حسین ملائک		Ali Khamenei	Alphons Egli	1990	1369
1990	1369	Mohammad Reza Alborzi	Persian : محمدرضا البرزی		Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	Arnold Koller	1997	1376
1997	1376	KiaTabatabaee	Persian : کیا طباطبایی		Mohammad Khatami	Arnold Koller	2001	1380
2001	1380	Majid Takht Ravanchi	Persian : مجید تخت روانچی		Mohammad Khatami	Moritz Leuenberger	2005	1384
2005	1384	Keivan Imani	Persian : کیوان ایمانی		Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	Samuel Schmid	2009	1388
2014	1393	Alireza Salari	Persian : علیرضا سالاری شریف		Hassan Rouhani	Didier Burkhalter	2009	1388
2014	1393	Gholamali Khosro, Gholamali Khoshroo	Persian : غلامعلی خوشرو		Hassan Rouhani	Didier Burkhalter	2014	1393
2014	1393	Mehdi Abedi	Persian : مهدی عابدی	Chargé d'affaires	Hassan Rouhani	Didier Burkhalter	2016	1395
2016	1395	Alireza Sabzali	Persian : علیرضا سبزعلی	Chargé d'affaires	Hassan Rouhani	Johann Schneider-Ammann	2018	1397
2018	1397	Mohammadreza Haji Karim Jabbari	Persian : محمدرضا حاج کریم جباری		Hassan Rouhani	Alain Berset	2022 [6]	1400
2022	1400	Mansoureh Sharifi Sadr [7]	Persian : منصوره شریفی صدر	Chargé d'affaires	Ebrahim Raisi	Ignazio Cassis	2022	1401
2022	1401	Mahmoud Hassanalizadeh [8]	Persian : محمود حسنعلیزاده	Chargé d'affaires	Ebrahim Raisi	Ignazio Cassis	2023	1402
April 4, 2023	1402	Mahmoud Barimani	Persian : محمود بریمانی		Ebrahim Raisi	Alain Berset

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See also

List of ambassadors to Switzerland

References

1. https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-94132.html
2. Abolhassan Foroughi
3. Kamal Hedayat, Mustafa Quli (Fahim-ul:Dbuleh)
4. Nasrollah Entezam
5. Sa'id Amir Divani
6. https://switzerland.mfa.gov.ir/portal/GeneralCategoryServices/4487
7. https://bern.mfa.ir/en/newsview/674469/Message-of-Head-of-Mission-Ms-Mansoureh-Sharifi-Sadr-on-the-Occasion-of-Nowruz
8. https://switzerland.mfa.gov.ir/en/newsview/711021/Embassy-Holds-44th-Anniversary-of-the-Islamic-Revolution-of-Iran
9. Iranian Embassy Bern