Kamal Kharazi

Kamal Kharazi
کمال خرازی
Kharazi in 2025
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
BornAli Naghi Kharazi
(1944-12-01) 1 December 1944
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
(present-day Iran)
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
University of Houston
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Sayyid Kamal Kharazi (Persian: کمال خرازی, born 1 December 1944) is an Iranian reformist politician and diplomat who served as the foreign minister of Iran from 20 August 1997 to 24 August 2005.

He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki who was appointed by the next President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council and advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is the chairman of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations. He also founded Institute for Cognitive Science Studies along with other prominent Iranian psychologists in 2016.