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Revision as of 17:34, 5 January 2011
علی اکبر صالحی Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Acting | |
| Assumed office 13 December 2010 | |
| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Deputy | Mansour Borghee |
| Preceded by | Manouchehr Mottaki |
| Vice President of Iran Head of Atomic Energy Organization | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2009 | |
| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Deputy | Mohammad Saeedi |
| Preceded by | Gholam Reza Aghazadeh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 24, 1949 [1] Karbala, Iraq |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Spouse | Zahra Salehi |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi (Persian: علی اکبر صالحی, born 24 March 1949) is an Iranian politican, diplomat and academic and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 13 December 2010. He is also the Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran since 16 July 2009. He was Iranian Representative in the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2005.[2]
Life and career
He was born on 7 July 1949 in Karbala, Iraq when his family was in Iraq for a religious visit. He has a BSc from the American University of Beirut[3] and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he earned in 1977. He was also Associate Professor and Chancellor of the Sharif University of Technology[4] and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy.
He was Chancellor of the Sharif University of Technology from 1982 to 1985 and once again in 1989 to 1993.
Diplomatic Missions
Ali Akbar Salehi is an active diplomat in the Foreign Policy of Iran:
Permanent Representative to IAEA
He was appointed as Permanent Representative of Iran to International Atomic Energy Agency by President Mohammad Khatami in 13 March 1997 and was in post until 22 August 2005 for more than eight years. On 18 December 2003, Salehi signed the Additional Protocol to the safeguard agreement, on behalf of Iran. He was replaced by Ali Asghar Soltanieh.
Deputy Secretary-General of OIC
He was also Deputy Secretary-General of Organisation of the Islamic Conference under Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu from 2007 to 2009. He resigned in July 2009 when was appointed as Head of AEAI.
Head of Atomic Energy Agency
On 16 July 2009, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed Salehi as the new head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, replacing Gholam Reza Aghazadeh who resigned on 10 July 2009.
Appointing as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs
On 13 December 2010, Ahmadinejad dismisses Manouchehr Mottaki for unknown reasons and appointed Salehi in an acting capacity[5]. Mottaki was the Foreign Minister of Iran since 24 August 2005. He was the only Minister who was not replaced in Ahmadinejad's Cabinet after Ahmadinejad's reelection. Salehi will be Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs until Ahmadinejad nominates a person to Parliament for this post.
References
- ^ [1] on the official website]
- ^ http://www.iranatom.ru/media/pers/iri/sal/salehie.htm
- ^ http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16333/04029165.pdf?sequence=1
- ^ http://www.sharif.ac.ir/en/about/admin/exprs.jsp
- ^ Manouchehr Mottaki fired from Iran foreign minister job BBC, 13 December 2010, 02:21 P.M. GMT. Retrieved 2010-12-13