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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran | |
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وزیر امور خارجه ایران | |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
Nominator | the President |
Appointer | the Parliament |
Formation | October 1821 (original) April 1, 1979 (current form) |
First holder | Neshat Esfahani |
Website | www.mfa.gov.ir |
Government of Islamic Republic of Iran |
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran and a member of the Cabinet. The office is currently hold by Ali Bagheri who was appointed as an acting foreign minister following the death of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. [1]
No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Mirza Abdolvahab Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Neshat | 1821 | 1823 |
2 | Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi | 1823 | 1834 |
3 | Mirza Ali Farahani | 1834 | 1835 |
4 | Mirza Mas'ud Khan Ansari | 1835 | 1838 |
5 | Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi | 1838 | 1846 |
Hajj Mirza Aghasi Acting Minister | 1846 | 1846 | |
6 | Mirza Mas'ud Khan Ansari | 1846 | 1849 |
Amir Kabir Acting Minister | 1849 | 1851 | |
7 | Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Shirazi | 18 July 1851 | 10 February 1852 |
8 | Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari | 1853 | 1873 |
9 | Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh | 11 December 1873 | 1880 |
10 | Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari | 1880 | 1884 |
11 | Mirza Mahmoud Khan Naser al Molk | 1884 | 1886 |
12 | Mirza Yahya Khan Moshir od-Dowleh | 5 February 1886 | 1 August 1887 |
13 | Mirza Abbas Khan Qavam od-Dowleh | 1887 | 29 June 1896 |
14 | Mirza Mohsen Khan Moshir od-Dowleh | 1886 | 1899 |
15 | Mirza Nasrullah Khan | 1899 | 1906 |
16 | Mohammad-Ali Ala al-Saltaneh | 1906 | 15 September 1907 |
17 | Javad Sad od-Dowleh | 1907 | 1907 |
18 | Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab | 1910 | 1911 |
... | ... | ... | ... |
No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Nosrat-ed-Dowleh | 1 October 1925 | 1 October 1938 |
2 | Ali Soheili | 1 October 1938 | 7 March 1939 |
3 | Mozaffar Alam | 7 March 1939 | 20 April 1943 |
4 | Hossein Ala' | 25 April 1943 | 2 March 1945 |
5 | Mahmoud Salehi | 2 March 1945 | 2 May 1945 |
6 | Mohsen Rais | 2 May 1945 | 4 May 1945 |
7 | Bagher Kazemi | 4 May 1945 | 7 April 1946 |
8 | Hossein Navab | 7 April 1946 | 13 January 1950 |
9 | Ali-Akbar Siassi | 13 January 1950 | 24 February 1950 |
10 | Hossein Navab | 24 February 1950 | 28 April 1951 |
11 | Bagher Kazemi | 28 April 1951 | 16 July 1952 |
12 | Hossein Navab | 21 July 1952 | 16 September 1952 |
13 | Hossein Fatemi | 16 September 1952 | 19 August 1953 |
14 | Abdol-Hossein Meftah | 23 August 1953 | 20 September 1953 |
15 | Abdullah Entezam | 20 September 1953 | 25 December 1955 |
16 | Ali-Gholi Ardalan | 25 December 1955 | 10 May 1958 |
17 | Ali-Asghar Hekmat | 10 May 1958 | 11 June 1959 |
18 | Djalal Abdoh | 13 June 1959 | 3 August 1959 |
19 | Abbas Aram | 3 August 1959 | 29 August 1960 |
20 | Yadallah Adhdi | 31 August 1960 | 21 February 1961 |
21 | Hossein Ghods-Nakhai Acting Minister | 11 March 1961 | 31 March 1962 |
22 | Abbas Aram | 1 April 1962 | 12 January 1967 |
23 | Ardeshir Zahedi | 12 January 1967 | 12 September 1971 |
24 | Abbas Ali Khalatbari | 13 September 1971 | 16 September 1978 |
25 | Amir Khosrow Afshar | 16 September 1978 | 6 January 1979 |
26 | Ahmad Mirfendereski | 6 January 1979 | 11 February 1979 |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | Government | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | |||||
1 | Karim Sanjabi (1904–1995) | 11 February 1979 | 1 April 1979[ citation needed ] | 49 days | NF | Interim Government | |
– | Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1995) Acting | 1 April 1979 | 12 April 1979 | 11 days | FMI | Interim Government | |
2 | Ebrahim Yazdi (1931–2017) | 12 April 1979 | 12 November 1979 | 214 days | FMI | Interim Government | |
– | Abolhassan Banisadr (1933–2021) Acting | 12 November 1979 | 29 November 1979 | 17 days | Independent | Interim Government | |
3 | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (1936–1982) | 29 November 1979 | 3 August 1980 | 248 days | Independent | Interim Government | |
– | Karim Khodapanahi (born 1944[ citation needed ]) Acting | 3 August 1980 | 11 March 1981 | 220 days | FMI | Rajai | |
– | Mohammad-Ali Rajai [ citation needed ] (1933–1981) Acting | 11 March 1981[ citation needed ] | 15 August 1981 | 157 days | IRP | Rajai | |
4 | Mir-Hossein Mousavi (born 1942) | 15 August 1981 | 15 December 1981 | 122 days | IRP | Rajai Bahonar Interim Government Mousavi I | |
5 | Ali Akbar Velayati (born 1945) | 15 December 1981 | 20 August 1997 | 15 years, 248 days | IRP | Mousavi I–II Rafsanjani I–II | |
6 | Kamal Kharazi (born 1944) | 20 August 1997 | 24 August 2005 | 8 years, 4 days | Independent | Khatami I–II | |
7 | Manouchehr Mottaki (born 1953) | 24 August 2005 | 13 December 2010 | 5 years, 111 days | FFLIL | Ahmadinejad I–II | |
– | Ali Akbar Salehi (born 1949) Acting | 13 December 2010 | 30 January 2011 | 48 days | Independent | Ahmadinejad II | |
8 | Ali Akbar Salehi (born 1949) | 30 January 2011 | 15 August 2013 | 2 years, 197 days | Independent | Ahmadinejad II | |
9 | Mohammad Javad Zarif (born 1960) | 15 August 2013 | 25 August 2021 | 8 years, 10 days | Independent | Rouhani I–II | |
10 | Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (1964–2024) | 25 August 2021 | 19 May 2024 | 2 years, 268 days | Independent | Raisi | |
– | Ali Bagheri (born 1967) Acting | 20 May 2024 | 21 August 2024 | 93 days | Independent | Interim Government | |
11 | Abbas Araghchi (born 1960) | 21 August 2024 | Incumbent | 14 days | Independent | Pezeshkian |
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