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Kamal Kharazi | |
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 Kharazi in 2020 | |
| Member ofExpediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 20 September 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Sadeq Larijani |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran | |
| In office 20 August 1997 – 24 August 2005 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Ali Akbar Velayati |
| Succeeded by | Manouchehr Mottaki |
| Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations | |
| In office 12 April 1989 – 30 August 1997 | |
| President | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Nabavi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ali Naghi Kharazi (1944-12-01)1 December 1944 (age 80) Tehran, Iran |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran University of Houston |
SayyidKamal Kharazi (Persian:کمال خرازی, born 1 December 1944) is an Iranianreformist politician and diplomat who was theMinister of Foreign Affairs from 20 August 1997 to 24 August 2005[1] as appointed by PresidentMohammad Khatami serving for eight years. He was replaced byManouchehr Mottaki who was appointed by the next PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is currently member of theExpediency Discernment Council[2] and advisor to Iran’s supreme leaderAyatollahAli Khamenei.[3] He is the chairman of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations.[4][5]
Kharazi was born in Tehran in 1944.[6] He got his Bachelor degree inArabic language and literature, and after receiving his master's degree in education at theUniversity of Tehran, he spent a year (1975–1976) as teaching fellow at theUniversity of Houston, where he received a PhD inindustrial psychology.[7]
Kharazi has been a Professor of Management and Educational Psychology at Tehran University since 1983. Kharazi was a founding member of theIslamic Research Institute inLondon.
Kharazi has held a number of governmental, diplomatic and academic posts and headed Iranian delegations at numerous international conferences, most importantly at theEarth Summit held inRio de Janeiro in 1992. For several years Kharazi presented the official Iranian position on TV and at university campuses in theUnited States andEurope, and has written extensively on foreign policy issues. He had extensive experience in guiding the media during the early days of Iran'sIranian Revolution.
From July 1980 to September 1989, he was the President of theIslamic Republic News Agency. On 18 September 1980, theIran–Iraq War broke out, and Kharazi served as a member of theSupreme Defense Council of Iran and headed the War Information Headquarters and served as a military spokesman for most of the war (from September 1980 to September 1988).[6]
During the first months after the Iranian Revolution, Kharazi served as the Vice-President ofIranian National Television (March to August 1979) for the new Islamic state. He then served as the Vice-Minister for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (from August 1979 to March 1980) and as the Managing Director of the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (from August 1979 to July 1981).Previously, he represented Iran at theUnited Nations from 1989 to 1997.[6]
In 2006, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei created the Foreign Relations Steering Council and appointed Kharazi as Chairman.[8][9][10][11]
In 2015, Kharazi was condemned for questioning Bahrain’s Arab identity, statements which were considered disrespectful by members of Bahrain’s Council of Representatives and Foreign Affairs Committee, who stated his remarks were a violation of international law.[12]
In May 2023, Kharazi was the opening speaker at an Iranian-Arab dialogue conference inDoha,Qatar.[13]
Kharazi is married with two children. His nephew, Sadegh Kharazi, isIran'sambassador to Paris and played a key role in developing the so-called roadmap or 'Swiss memo'.[14]
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| Preceded by None | Deputy Head ofIRIB 1979 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Nohammad-Reza Sharif | Managing-Director ofIRNA 1980–1989 | Succeeded by Hossein Nasiri |
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| Preceded by | Ambassador ofIran to theUnited Nations 1989–1997 | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Minister of Foreign Affairs 1997–2005 | Succeeded by |
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