Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
Incumbent Ali Akbar Salehi since 13 December 2010
Formation	October 1821
First holder	Abdolvahhab Khan
Website	www.mfa.gov.ir

The Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran and a member of the Cabinet of Iran. The current office holder is Ali Akbar Salehi since 13 December 2011.

List of Ministers

Before Persian Constitutional Revolution

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Mirza Abdulvahab Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Neshat	1821	1823
2	Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi	1823	1834
3	Mirza Ali Farahani	1834	1835
4	Mirza Mas'ud Khan Ansari	1835	1838
5	Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi	1838	1846
6	Hajj Mirza Aghasi (acting)	1846	1846
7	Mirza Mas'ud Khan Ansari	1846	1849
8	Amir Kabir (acting)	1849	1851
9	Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Shirazi	18 July 1851	10 February 1852
10	Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari	1853	1873
11	Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh	11 December 1873	1880
12	Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari	1880	1884
13	Mirza Mahmoud Khan Naser al Molk	1884	1886
14	Mirza Yahya Khan Moshir od-Dowleh	5 February 1886	1 August 1887
15	Mirza Abbas Khan Qavam od-Dowleh	1887	29 June 1896
16	Mirza Mohsen Khan Moshir od-Dowleh	1886	1899
17	Mirza Nasrullah Khan	1899	1906

After Persian Constitutional Revolution

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Mohammad Ali Khan Ala al-Saltaneh	1906	15 September 1907
2	Javad Sad od-Dowleh	1907	1907
...	...	...	...
3	Nosrat-ed-Dowleh	1 October 1925	1 October 1938
4	Ali Soheili	1 October 1938	7 March 1939
5	Mowzafar Alam	7 March 1939	20 April 1943
6	Hossein Ala'	25 April 1943	2 March 1945
7	Mahmoud Salehi	2 March 1945	2 May 1945
8	Mohsen Raees	2 May 1945	4 May 1945
9	Bagher Kazemi	4 May 1945	7 April 1946
10	Hossein Navab	7 April 1946	5 May 1951
11	Hossein Fatemi	5 May 1951	19 August 1953
12	Abdol-Hossein Meftah	19 August 1953	7 April 1953
13	Fazlollah Zahedi	7 April 1953	29 April 1953
14	Abdollah Entezam	29 April 1953	29 April 1958
15	Ali-Gholi Ardalan	29 April 1958	30 December 1959
16	Abbas Aram	30 December 1959	30 July 1960
17	Jafar Sharif-Emami	30 July 1960	1 December 1960
18	Hossein Ghods-Nakhai (Acting)	1 December 1960	30 December 1960
19	Abbas Aram	30 December 1960	3 March 1966
20	Ardeshir Zahedi	3 March 1966	14 January 1973
21	Abbas-Ali Khalatbari	14 January 1973	14 January 1978
22	Amir Khosro Afshar	14 January 1978	1 February 1979
23	Ahmad Mirfenderescy	1 February 1979	21 February 1979
24	Karim Sanjabi	11 February 1979	1 April 1979
25	Mehdi Bazargan (Acting)	1 April 1979	12 April 1979
26	Ebrahim Yazdi	12 April 1979	12 November 1979
27	Abulhassan Banisadr	12 November 1979	29 November 1979
28	Sadegh Ghotbzadeh	29 November 1979	3 August 1980
29	Mohammad Karim Khodapanahi	3 August 1980	11 March 1981
30	Mohammad-Ali Rajai (Acting)	11 March 1981	15 August 1981
31	Mir-Hossein Mousavi	15 August 1981	15 December 1981
32	Ali Akbar Velayati	15 December 1981	20 August 1997
33	Kamal Kharazi	20 August 1997	24 August 2005
34	Manouchehr Mottaki	24 August 2005	13 December 2010
35	Ali Akbar Salehi	13 December 2010	Incumbent

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Cabinet of Iran