Kamal Kharazi
Kamal Kharazi | |
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کمال خرازی | |
Kharazi in 2025 | |
| Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 20 September 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Sadeq Larijani |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran | |
| 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 | Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ali Naghi Kharazi 1 December 1944 |
| Alma mater | University 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.