Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations
Ambassador to the United Nations of the Islamic Republic of Iran | |
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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 currently ambassador is Majid Takht-Ravanchi since April 2019. [2]
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 | 1955–1959 | Dag Hammarskjöld | ||
4 | 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. | 1979 | Mehdi Bazargan | Kurt Waldheim | |
Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–present) • | ||||
6 | 1979–1980 | Abolhassan Banisadr | Kurt Waldheim | |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | 1980 | Abolhassan Banisadr | Kurt Waldheim | |
7 | 1981–1987 | Ali Khamenei | Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | 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 | 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 | 2014–2015 | Hassan Rouhani | Ban Ki-moon | |
13 | 2015–2018 | Hassan Rouhani | Ban Ki-moon, António Guterres | |
Chargé d'Affaires a.i | 2018–2019 | Hassan Rouhani | António Guterres | |
14 | Majid Takht-Ravanchi | 2019– | Hassan Rouhani, 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[]
- ^ "Iran's new UN envoy submits credentials to Guterres". 24 April 2019.
- ^ "Iran Appoints Takht-Ravanchi as New Ambassador to UN". 9 April 2019.
External links[]
- 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)
Categories:
- Permanent Representatives of Iran to the United Nations
- Lists of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
- Lists of ambassadors of Iran