Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations
Leader of the delegation of Iran to the United Nations
Ambassador to the United Nations of the Islamic Republic of Iran | |
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Incumbent since 7 September 2022[1]Saeed Iravani | |
Appointer | President of Iran |
Inaugural holder | Nasrollah Entezam |
Formation | 1945 |
Website | Website of The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations - New York at the Wayback Machine (archived August 16, 2017). Additional archives: Website of The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations - New York. |
The Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations is the leader of the delegation of Iran to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations”, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of Iran in the United Nations Security Council.
The current ambassador is Saeed Iravani since September 7, 2022.
Office-holders
The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:
# | Permanent Representative | Years served | Head of State of Iran | UN Secretary-General |
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Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979) • ![]() | ||||
Head of delegation | Hassan Taqizadeh | 1946–1947 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Gladwyn Jebb |
1 | Nasrollah Entezam | 1947–1950 | Trygve Lie | |
2 | Ali Gholi Ardalan | 1950–1955 | Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld | |
3 | Djalal Abdoh | 1955–1959 | Dag Hammarskjöld | |
4 | Mehdi Vakil | 1959–1970 | Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant | |
5 | Fereydoun Hoveyda | 1970–1979 | U Thant, Kurt Waldheim | |
Interim Government of Iran (1979) • ![]() | ||||
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | Jamal Shemirani | 1979 | Mehdi Bazargan | Kurt Waldheim |
Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–present) • ![]() | ||||
6 | Mansour Farhang | 1979–1980 | Abolhassan Banisadr | Kurt Waldheim |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | Jamal Shemirani | 1980 | Abolhassan Banisadr | Kurt Waldheim |
7 | Saeed Rajaee Khorasani | 1981–1987 | Ali Khamenei | Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | Mohammad Jafar Mahallati | 1987–1988 | Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |
8 | 1988–1989 (Permanent representative) | |||
9 | Kamal Kharazi | 1989–1997 | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan |
10 | Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian | 1997–2002 | Mohammad Khatami | Kofi Annan |
11 | Mohammad Javad Zarif | 2002–2007 | Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon |
12 | Mohammad Khazaee | 2007–2014 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Rouhani | Ban Ki-moon |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i | Gholamhossein Dehghani | 2014–2015 | Hassan Rouhani | Ban Ki-moon |
13 | Gholamali Khoshroo | 2015–2018 | Hassan Rouhani | Ban Ki-moon, António Guterres |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i | Es'hagh Al Habib | 2018–2019 | Hassan Rouhani | António Guterres |
14 | Majid Takht-Ravanchi[2] | 2019–2022 | Hassan Rouhani, Ebrahim Raisi | António Guterres |
15 | Saeed Iravani | 2022–Present | Ebrahim Raisi | António Guterres |
See also
- Foreign Relations of Iran
- List of permanent representatives of Iran to the United Nations Office at Geneva
- List of ambassadors of Iran to United Nations Office at Vienna
Notes
External links
- Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
- Archive Website of The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations - New York at the Wayback Machine (archived August 16, 2017)
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