Mehdi Sanaei | |
|---|---|
مهدی سنایی | |
 Sanaei (left) in 2014 | |
| Political Advisor to the President of Iran | |
| In office 17 November 2024 –4 January 2026 | |
| President | Masoud Pezeshkian |
| Preceded by | Zahra Rahnavard (2005) |
| Succeeded by | Unknown |
| Ambassador of Iran to Russia | |
| In office December 2013 –December 2019 | |
| President | Hassan Rouhani |
| Preceded by | Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi |
| Succeeded by | Kazem Jalali |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 27 May 2008 –27 November 2013 | |
| Constituency | Nahavand |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 March 1968 |
Mehdi Sanaei [1] (born 25 March 1968) is an Iranian academic,politician,Professor in University of Tehran and Deputy of Political Affairs of the President's Office since 22 August 2024. He was Masoud Pezeshkian's political advisor from November 2024 until his resignation on 4 January 2026 during the mass protests against the regime. [2]
Contents
- University and academic activities
- Executive and administrative activities
- Bibliography
- Books in Persian
- Books in Russian
- Translation from English and Russian
- References
- External links
He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation from 2013 to 2019. Sanaei was lawmaker at Iran’s Islamic Parliament (Majlis) from 2008 to 2013. Also He was Senior Adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022.
He is the founder and director of Russian Studies Department in the Faculty of World Studies,University of Tehran. He is also the founder and CEO of the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (a.k.a. IRAS) since 2004. IRAS is an independent,non-profit,non-governmental think tank and publisher based in Tehran whose mission is to analyze and promote the understanding of major issues and current affairs of Eurasia,Russia,China,India,Turkey,Central Asia and South Caucasus. [3] He has written and translated several books,and several of his works have been published in foreign languages. Sanaei's last book is in Persian,Russia:Society,Politics and Government,and in Russian,"Conversations about the Future That Does Not Yet exist". He also founded the cultural centres of the Iranian embassies in Kazakhstan and Russia and between 1995 and 2003 he worked in these countries as a cultural counselor of Iran. Sanaei is appointed recently (May 2022) as senior fellow of center for Governance and Public Management in Carleton University in Canada.in 2021 in cooperation with SPBGU he initiated the project of Iranistika encyclopaedia in Russian language that is prepared by Iranian and Russian Iranists.
