Kamal Kharazi

Kamal Kharazi
Kharazi in 2020
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Assumed office
20 September 2022
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanSadeq Larijani
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
In office
20 August 1997 – 24 August 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byAli Akbar Velayati
Succeeded byManouchehr Mottaki
Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations
In office
12 April 1989 – 30 August 1997
PresidentAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preceded byMohammad Nabavi
Succeeded byMohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian
Personal details
Born
Ali Naghi Kharazi

(1944-12-01) 1 December 1944 (age 79)
Tehran, Iran
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
University of Houston

Sayyid Kamal Kharazi (Persian: کمال خرازی, born 1 December 1944) is an Iranian reformist politician and diplomat who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 20 August 1997 to 24 August 2005[1] as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami serving for eight years. He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki who was appointed by the next President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

  1. ^ John F. Burns; Terence Neilan (17 May 2005). "Iranian Envoy in Iraq for Talks, as Rebels Battle U.S. Gunships". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 January 2011.