List of state visits to Iran

This is a list of foreign heads of state, heads of government, and other government officials who have visited the Iran, which is classified by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as either a state visit, official visit, or working visit.

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Country	Guest	Title	Date	Significance
• Islamic Republic of Iran (1979 – present) •
Hassan Rouhani Presidency
Republic of Korea	Park Geun-hye	President	May 1, 2016
South Africa	Jacob Zuma	President	April 24, 2016
Serbia	Tomislav Nikolić	President	April 17, 2016
European Union	Federica Mogherini	High Representative	April 16, 2016
Italy	Matteo Renzi	Prime Minister	April 12, 2016
Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President	April 11, 2016
Vietnam	Trương Tấn Sang	President	March 13, 2016
Turkey	Ahmet Davutoğlu	Prime Minister	March 04, 2016
Switzerland	Johann Schneider-Ammann	President	February 26, 2016
Azerbaijan	Ilham Aliyev	President	February 23, 2016
Ghana	John Dramani Mahama	President	February 14, 2016
Greece	Alexis Tsipras	Prime Minister	February 07, 2016
China	Xi Jinping	President	January 22, 2016
Pakistan	Nawaz Sharif[1]	Prime Minister	January 19, 2016
Afghanistan	Abdullah Abdullah[2]	Chief Executive Officer	January 5, 2016
Hungary	Viktor Orbán[3]	Prime Minister	December 1, 2015
Bolivia	Evo Morales	President	23 November 2015	Third GECF summit
Russia	Vladimir Putin[4][5]	President
Venezuela	Nicolás Maduro	President
Equatorial Guinea	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	President
Nigeria	Muhammadu Buhari	President
Algeria	Abdelmalek Sellal	Prime Minister
Egypt	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	President
Qatar	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani	Emir
Trinidad and Tobago	Keith Rowley	Prime Minister
Iraq	Fuad Masum	President
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	President
European Union	Federica Mogherini	High Representative
Austria	Heinz Fischer[6]	President	September 8, 2015
Kyrgyzstan	Almazbek Atambayev[7]	President	September 5, 2015
Iraq	Nouri al-Maliki[8]	Prime Minister	August 16, 2015
Iraq	Fuad Masum[9]	President	May 13, 2015
Afghanistan	Ashraf Ghani[10]	President	April 19, 2015
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[11]	President	April 7, 2015
Kuwait	Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah[12]	Emir	June 1, 2014
European Union	Catherine Ashton[13]	High Representative	March 9, 2014
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister	January 29-30, 2014
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai[14]	President	December 8, 2013
Oman	Qaboos bin Said al Said[15]	Sultan	August 25, 2013
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai	President	4 August 2013	Inauguration of Hassan Rouhani
Armenia	Serzh Sargsyan	President
Guinea-Bissau	Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo	President
Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President
Kuwait	Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah[16]	Prime Minister
Kyrgyzstan	Almazbek Atambayev	President
Lebanon	Michel Suleiman[17]	President
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Kim Yong-Nam[18]	President
Pakistan	Asif Ali Zardari[19]	President
Qatar	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani	Emir
Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapaksa	President
Swaziland	Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini	Prime Minister
Syria	Wael Nader Al-Halqi[20]	Prime Minister
Tajikistan	Emomalii Rahmon	President
Togo	Faure Gnassingbé	President
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Presidency
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai[21]	President	26 – 31 August 2012	16th NAM Summit
Bangladesh	Sheikh Hasina[22]	Prime Minister
Benin	Yayi Boni[23]	President
Bhutan	Jigme Thinley[24]	Prime Minister
Burkina Faso	Blaise Compaoré	President
Cambodia	Hun Sen[25]	Prime Minister
Central African Republic	François Bozizé[26]	President
Djibouti	Ismail Omar Guelleh[26]	President
Egypt	Mohamed Morsi[21]	President
Gabon	Ali Bongo Ondimba[23]	President
Guinea-Bissau	Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo	President
India	Manmohan Singh[27]	Prime Minister
Iraq	Nouri al-Maliki[28]	Prime Minister
Lebanon	Michel Suleiman[21]	President
Mauritania	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	President
Mongolia	Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj[29]	President
Morocco	Abdelillah Benkirane	Prime Minister
Nepal	Baburam Bhattarai[30]	Prime Minister
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Kim Yong-nam[31][32]	President
Pakistan	Asif Ali Zardari[33]	President
Palestine	Mahmoud Abbas[34]	President
Qatar	Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani[35]	Emir
Senegal	Macky Sall	President
Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapaksa[36]	President
Sudan	Omar al-Bashir[21]	President
United Nations	Ban Ki-moon	Secretary-General
Syria	Wael Nader al-Halqi[37]	Prime Minister
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[38]	President
Uganda	Yoweri Museveni[39]	President
Vietnam	Nguyen Tan Dung	Prime Minister
Zimbabwe	Robert Mugabe[21]	President
Tajikistan	Emomali Rahmon[28]	President
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister	March 27-28, 2012
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[40]	President	March 27, 2011	2nd Norouz Festival
Iraq	Jalal Talabani	President
Tajikistan	Emomalii Rahmon	President
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai	President
Armenia	Serzh Sargsyan	President
Bolivia	Evo Morales[41]	President	October 25-28, 2010
Venezuela	Hugo Chavez[42]	President	October 19-21, 2010
Algeria	Abdelaziz Bouteflika[43]	President	May 15–17, 2010	14th G-15 summit
Brazil	Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva[43]	President
Senegal	Abdoulaye Wade[43]	President
Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapakse[43]	President
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdogan[43]	Prime Minister
Zimbabwe	Robert Mugabe[44]	President
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[45]	President	April 17–18, 2010	Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Iraq	Jalal Talabani[46]	President
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	President	March 27, 2010	1st Norouz Festival
Iraq	Jalal Talabani	President
Tajikistan	Emomalii Rahmon	President
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai	President
Oman	Qaboos bin Said al Said[47]	Sultan	October 5, 2009
Turkey	Abdullah Gül	President	March 10–11, 2009	10th summit of the ECO
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai	President
Tajikistan	Emomalii Rahmon	President
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	President
Azerbaijan	Ilham Aliyev	President
Pakistan	Yousaf Raza Gillani	Prime Minister
Uzbekistan	Shavkat Mirziyoyev	Prime Minister
Kazakhstan	Karim Massimov	Prime Minister
Kyrgyzstan	Kurmanbek Bakiyev	President
Ecuador	Rafael Correa[48][49]	President	December 6, 2008
Bolivia	Evo Morales[50]	President	September 1, 2008
Russia	Vladimir Putin[51]	President	October 16, 2007	2nd Caspian Summit
Azerbaijan	Ilham Aliyev	President
Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	President
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister	December 2–3, 2006
Mohammad Khatami Presidency
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Prime Minister	July 28–30, 2004
Indonesia	Megawati Sukarnoputri[52]	President	February 18, 2004	D-8 4th Summit
Nigeria	Olusegun Obasanjo	President
Turkey	Ahmet Necdet Sezer	President
Malaysia	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi	President
Pakistan	Zafarullah Khan Jamali[53]	Prime Minister
Bangladesh	Khaleda Zia	Prime Minister
China	Jiang Zemin	President	April 2001
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Presidency
Pakistan	Nawaz Sharif	Prime Minister	16–17 February 1992	1st ECO Summit
Turkey	Turgut Ozal	President
Azerbaijan	Ayaz Mutallibov	President
Turkmenistan	Saparmurat Niyazov	President
Ali Khamenei Presidency
Sudan	Sadiq al-Mahdi	Prime Minister	late 1986
United Nations	Kurt Waldheim	Secretary-General	5 January 1980
• Interim Government of Iran (1979) •
Mehdi Bazargan Prime Ministership
Palestinian Liberation Organization	Yasser Arafat	Chairman	February 17, 1979
• Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979) •
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Reign
Israel	Menachem Begin[54]	Prime Minister	February 22, 1978
United States	Jimmy Carter	President	December 30, 1977	Official visit
Jordan	Hussein	King	December 30, 1977
Israel	Yitzhak Rabin	Prime Minister	July 16, 1976
Israel	Yitzhak Rabin	Prime Minister	August 16, 1975
United States	Richard Nixon	President	May 30, 1972	Official visit
Australia	Paul Hasluck	Governor-General	12–16 October 1971	2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire
Ethiopia	Haile Selassie [55]	King
Denmark	Frederick IX	King
Belgium	Baudouin	King
Jordan	Hussein	King
Nepal	Mahendra	King
Norway	Olav V	King
Bahrain	Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa	Emir
Qatar	Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani	Emir
Kuwait	Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah	Emir
Greece	Constantine II	King
Oman	Qaboos bin Said al Said	Sultan
Lesotho	Moshoeshoe II	King
Malaysia	Abdul Halim of Kedah	Yang di-Pertuan Agong
Luxembourg	Jean	Grand Duke
Sweden	Carl Gustaf	Crown Prince
United Arab Emirates	Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan	President
Canada	Roland Michener	Governor General
Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito	President
Soviet Union	Nikolai Podgorny	President
Austria	Franz Jonas	President
Bulgaria	Todor Zhivkov	President
Brazil	Emílio Garrastazu Médici	President
Finland	Urho Kekkonen	President
Turkey	Cevdet Sunay	President
Hungary	Pal Losonczi	President
Czechoslovakia	Ludvík Svoboda	President
Pakistan	Yahya Khan	President
Lebanon	Suleiman Franjieh	President
Liechtenstein	Franz Josef II	Prince
South Africa	Jacobus Johannes Fouché	President
Senegal	Leopold Sedar Senghor	President
India	V. V. Giri	President
Indonesia	Suharto	President
Mauritania	Moktar Ould Daddah	President
Dahomey	Hubert Maga	President
Romania	Nicolae Ceauşescu	President
Zaire	Mobutu Sese Seko	President
Switzerland	Rudolf Gnägi	President
Swaziland	Makhosini Dlamini	Prime Minister
France	Jacques Chaban-Delmas	Prime Minister
Republic of Korea	Kim Jong-pil	Prime Minister
Italy	Emilio Colombo	Prime Minister
Holy See	Paul VI[56]	Pope	25 November, 1970
Israel	Levi Eshkol[57]	Prime Minister	June 19, 1966
Finland	Urho Kekkonen	President	11–12 February 1965
Norway	Olav V	King	7-14 January 1965
Israel	David Ben-Gurion	Prime Minister	November 4, 1961
United Kingdom	Elizabeth II[58]	Queen	2–6 March 1961
United States	Dwight D. Eisenhower	President	December 14, 1959	Addressed Iranian Parliament
Soviet Union	Joseph Stalin	Prime Minister	November 27 - December 2, 1943	Tehran Conference
United Kingdom	Winston Churchill	Prime Minister
United States	Franklin D. Roosevelt	President
Reza Shah Reign
• Sublime State of Persia (1907–1925) •

See Also

• List of international trips made by the President of Iran
• List of presidential trips made by Hassan Rouhani

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