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List of ambassadors of Iran to Armenia

Coordinates: 40°12′18″N 44°31′04″E / 40.204968°N 44.517837°E / 40.204968; 44.517837
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Ambassador of Iran to Armenia
Persian: سفیر ایران در جمهوری ارمنستان
Coat of Arms of Iran
Building if Iranian Consulate Yerevan
Incumbent
Mehdi Sobhani[1]
since July 22, 2023
Inaugural holderBahram Ghasemi
FormationApril 30, 1992

The Iranian ambassador in Yerevan is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Armenia.

List of representatives

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Diplomatic accreditation Diplomatic accreditation Solar Hijri calendar Ambassador Persian language Observations List of presidents of Iran Prime Minister of Armenia Term end Term end Solar Hijri calendar
April 30, 1992 1371 Bahram Ghasemi Persian: بهرام قاسمی Chargé d'affaires (* 1956) opened the embassy in Yerevan on April 30. 1992.

He was Iranian ambassador to Ireland.[2]

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Khosrov Harutyunyan 1993 1371
April 20, 1993 1372 Ahmad Sobhani Persian: احمد سبحانی Chargé d'affaires[3] Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Hrant Bagratyan 1994 1373
1994 1373 Hamid-Reza Nikkar Isfahani Persian: حمیدرضا نیک‌کار اصفهانی Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Hrant Bagratyan 1998 1377
September 7, 2000 1378 Mohammad Farhad Koleini (fa) Persian: محمدفرهاد کلینی (* 1960) is a diplomat from Iran, an Iranian military officer in Armenia.
  • In 1982 he entered the foreign service, he was affiliated with the Iranian Embassy in Havana, the head of the Iranian embassy in Madrid.

He was a member of the Mediation Board of Iran in the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, Iran's temporary armed forces in Armenia, the second member of the Iranian Embassy in Armenia, a member of the Committee.

  • He was Foreign Ministry strategy, head of the West Asia Department, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and US Department of State.[4]
Mohammad Khatami Andranik Margaryan September 1, 2002
2004 1382 Ali-Reza Haghighian (fa) Persian: علیرضا حقیقیان (* September 1, 1958 in Isfahan)
  • He is married and has three children.
  • He got a Bachelor's Degree.
  • From 1981 to 1983 he was Attache to Political Affairs.
  • From 1983 to 1987 he was Third Secretary (Political Affairs):Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Canada(Ottawa):.
  • From 1987 to 1988 he was Second Secretary(Political Affairs):.
  • From 1988 to 1993 he was First Secretary, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn): .
  • Counsellor (Political Affairs):1993 to 1998. *Director General, Bureau for Study of Reports of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran: 1998 to 2001.
  • From 2001 to 2003 he was Iranian Charge d'Affaires in Iraq (Baghdad).
  • From 2004 to 2007 he was Ambassador in Armenia.
  • From 2007 to 2011 he was Senior Expert, Commonwealth Affairs.
  • From December 2011 to 2014 he was Iranian ambassador to Pakistan.[5]
Mohammad Khatami Andranik Margaryan 2007 1386
May 6, 2008 1386 Ali Saghayan Persian: علی سقائیان [6] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tigran Sargsyan May 3, 2012
2013 1391 Mohammad Raisi (fa) Persian: محمد رئیسی (* 1336 in Shahr-e-Kord), a former representative of the sixth and third parliamentary reformists from the Shahrekord constituency in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province has four representatives in the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Hassan Rouhani Tigran Sargsyan October 1, 2013
October 8, 2015 1394 Kazem Sajjadi (fa) Persian: سیدکاظم سجادی In 1983 he entered the foreign service.

He was employed in the Iranian Embassy in Athens (Greece) Consulate of the Iranian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Head of the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran – Hamburg[7]

Hassan Rouhani Hovik Abrahamyan December 1, 2019
February 1, 2020 1398 Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri Persian: عباس بدخشان ظهوری Hassan Rouhani Nikol Pashinyan 2023 1402
July 22, 2023 1402 Mehdi Sobhani Persian: مهدی سبحانی Ebrahim Raisi Nikol Pashinyan

40°12′18″N 44°31′04″E / 40.204968°N 44.517837°E / 40.204968; 44.517837 [8]

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