Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations

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.

Ambassador to the United Nations of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Incumbent Amir Saeed Iravani since 7 September 2022
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 current ambassador is Amir Saeed Iravani since September 7, 2022.

Office-holders

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

No.	Permanent Representative	Years served	Head of State of Iran	UN Secretary-General
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	Djalal Abdoh	1955–1959		Dag Hammarskjöld
4	Mehdi Vakil	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.	Jamal Shemirani	1979	Mehdi Bazargan	Kurt Waldheim
Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–present) •
6	Mansour Farhang	1979–1980	Abolhassan Banisadr	Kurt Waldheim
Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Jamal Shemirani	1980	Abolhassan Banisadr	Kurt Waldheim
7	Saeed Rajaee Khorasani	1981–1987	Ali Khamenei	Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Mohammad Jafar Mahallati	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	Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian	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	Gholamhossein Dehghani	2014–2015	Hassan Rouhani	Ban Ki-moon
13	Gholamali Khoshroo	2015–2018	Hassan Rouhani	Ban Ki-moon, António Guterres
Chargé d'Affaires a.i	Es'hagh Al Habib	2018–2019	Hassan Rouhani	António Guterres
14	Majid Takht-Ravanchi	2019–2022	Hassan Rouhani, Ebrahim Raisi	António Guterres
15	Amir Saeed Iravani	2022–present	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

External links

• Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations

• 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)