Kamal Kharazi

Kamal Kharazi
Kharazi in unveiling of his book

Minister of Foreign Affairs
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	Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian
Personal details
Born	Ali Naghi Kharazi (1944-12-01) 1 December 1944 Tehran, Iran
Political party	Reformists
Children	Mehdi Ali
Alma mater	University of Tehran University of Houston
Religion	Islam

Seyed Kamal Kharazi (Persian: کمال خرازی‎‎, born 1 December 1944) is an Iranian 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.

Early life and education

Kharazi was born in Tehran in 1944.^[2] He got his bachelor of science degree in Arabic language and literature, and after receiving his master's degree in education at the University of Tehran, he spent a year (1975–1976) as teaching fellow at the University of Houston, where he received a PhD. in industrial psychology. ^[3]

Career

Kharazi in a meeting with Vladimir Putin

Kharazi has been a Professor of Management and Educational Psychology at Tehran University since 1983. Kharazi was a founding member of the Islamic Research Institute in London.

Kharazi has held a number of governmental, diplomatic and academic posts and headed Iranian delegations at numerous international conferences, most importantly at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. For several years Kharazi presented the official Iranian position on TV and at university campuses in the United States and Europe, and has written extensively on foreign policy issues. He had extensive experience in guiding the media during the early days of Iran's Iranian Revolution.

From July 1980 to September 1989, he was the President of the Islamic Republic News Agency. On 18 September 1980, the Iran–Iraq War broke out, and Kharazi served as a member of the Supreme 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).^[2]

During the first months after the Iranian Revolution, Kharazi served as the Vice President of Iranian 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 the United Nations from 1989 to 1997.^[2]

References

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↑ John F. Burns; Terence Neilan (17 May 2005). "Iranian Envoy in Iraq for Talks, as Rebels Battle U.S. Gunships". New York Times. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
1 2 3 Buchta, Wilfried (2000). Who rules Iran? (PDF). The Washington Institute and The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. p. 19.
↑ Kamal Kharrazi (CV) in his homepage at the University of Tehran (In Farsi)

Media offices
Preceded by None	Deputy Head of IRIB 1979	Succeeded by Ali Jannati
Preceded by Nohammad-Reza Sharif	Managing-Director of IRNA 1980–1989	Succeeded by Hossein Nasiri
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Mohammad Nabavi	Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations 1989–1997	Succeeded by Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian
Political offices
Preceded by Ali Akbar Velayati	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1997–2005	Succeeded by Manouchehr Mottaki

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran

Abdolvahhab Khan Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi Hajj Mirza Aghasi Amir Kabir Saeed Khan Ansari Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh Saeed Khan Ansari Mirza Nasrullah Khan Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Ali Soheili Mozaffar Alam Hossein Ala' Mahmoud Salehi Mohsen Rais Bagher Kazemi Hossein Navab Hossein Fatemi Abdol-Hossein Meftah Fazlollah Zahedi Abdullah Entezam Ali Gholi Ardalan Abbas Aram Jafar Sharif-Emami Hossein Ghods-Nakhai Abbas Aram Ardeshir Zahedi Abbas Ali Khalatbari Amir Khosrow Afshar Ahmad Mirfendereski Karim Sanjabi Mehdi Bazargan Ebrahim Yazdi Abulhassan Banisadr Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Karim Khodapanahi Mohammad-Ali Rajai Mir-Hossein Mousavi Ali Akbar Velayati Kamal Kharazi Manouchehr Mottaki Ali Akbar Salehi Mohammad Javad Zarif

Cabinet of President Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005)

Cabinet

Minister of Foreign Affairs	Kamal Kharrazi (1997–2005)

Minister of Agriculture**	Isa Kalantari (1997–2000)

Minister of Jihad of Construction**	Mohammad Saeedikia (1997–2000)

Ministry of Jihad of Agriculture**	Mahmoud Hojjati (2000–2005)

Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone	Mohammad Reza Aref (1997–2000) Ahmad Motamedi (2000–2005)

Minister of Labour and Social Affairs	Hossein Kamali (1997–2001) Safdar Hosseini (2001–2004) Nasser Khaleghi (2004–2005)

Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance	Attaollah Mohajerani (1997–2000) Ahmad Masjed-Jamei (2000–2005)

Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics	Ali Shamkhani (1997–2005)

Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance	Hossein Namazi (1997–2001) Tahmasb Mazaheri (2001–2004) Safdar Hosseini (2004–2005)

Minister of Education	Hossein Mozaffar (1997–2001) Morteza Haji (2001–2005)

Minister of Energy	Habibolah Bitaraf (1997–2005)

Minister of Health and Medical Education	Mohammad Farhadi (1997–2001) Masoud Pezeshkian (2001–2005)

Minister of Mines and Metals***	Eshaq Jahangiri (1997–2000)

Minister of Industries***	Gholamreza Shafeei (1997–2000)

Minister of Industries and Mines***	Eshaq Jahangiri (2000–2005)

Minister of Intelligence	Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi (1997–1998) Ali Younesi (1998–2005)

Minister of Interior	Abdollah Nouri (1997–1998) Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari (1998–2005)

Minister of Justice	Mohammad Ismaeil Shooshtari (1997–2005)

Minister of Petroleum	Bijan Namdar Zanganeh (1997–2005)

Minister of Roads and Transportation	Mahmoud Hojatti (1997–2001) Rahman Dadman (2001) Ahmad Khorram (2001–2004) Mohammad Rahmati (2004–2005)

Commerce	Mohammad Shariatmadar (1997–2005)

Minister of Science, Research and Technology	Mostafa Moeen (1997–2003) Jafar Towfighi (2003–2005)

Minister of Welfare and Social Security****	Mohammad Hossein Sharifzadegan (2004–2005)

Ministry of Cooperatives	Morteza Haji (1997–2001) Ali Soufi (2001–2005)

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development	Ali Abdolalizadeh (1997–2005)

Cabinet-level

First Vice President	Hassan Habibi (1997–2001) Mohammad Reza Aref (2001–2005)

Chief of Staff	Mohammad-Ali Abtahi (1997–2001) Ali Khatami (2001–2005)

Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization	Gholam Reza Aghazadeh (1997–2005)

Vice President and Head of Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization	Mohammad Beheshti Shirazi (1997–2003) Hossein Marashi (2003–2005)

Vice President and Head of Environmental Protection Organization	Masoumeh Ebtekar (1997–2005)

Vice President and Head of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs	Hossein Dehghan (2002–2005)

Vice President and Head of Management and Planning Organization of Iran	Mohammad-Ali Najafi (1997–2000) Mohammad Reza Aref (2000–2001) Mohammad Sattarifar (2001–2004) Hamidreza Baradaran-Shoraka (2004–2005)

Vice President and Head of Physical Education Organization	Mostafa Hashemitaba (1997–2001) Mohsen Mehralizadeh (2001–2005)

Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs	Mohammad-Ali Abtahi (2001–2004) Majid Ansari (2004–2005)

* Acting
**Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Jihad of Construction merged, forming Ministry of Jihad of Agriculture
***Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Mines and Metals merged, forming Ministry of Industries and Mines
****established in 2004

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Kamal Kharazi

Early life and education

Career

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