Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations

Ambassador to the United Nations of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Flag of the United Nations
Incumbent Gholamali Khoshroo since 1 February 2015
Appointer	President of Iran
Inaugural holder	Nasrollah Entezam
Formation	1945
Website	Website of Iran Mission to the United Nations

The Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations is the leader of the delegation of Iran to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of Iran in the United Nations Security Council.

The currently ambassador is Gholamali Khoshroo since January 28, 2015.

Office-holders

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

#	Permanent Representative	Years served	UN Secretary-General	Iranian monarch/head of state
-	Hassan Taqizadeh (Head of delegation)	1946–1947	Gladwyn Jebb	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1	Nasrollah Entezam	1947–1950	Trygve Lie
2	Ali-Gholi Ardalan	1950–1955	Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld
3	Djalal Abdoh	1955–1959	Dag Hammarskjöld
4	Mehdi Vakil	1959–1970	Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant
5	Fereydoun Hoveyda	1970–1979	U Thant, Kurt Waldheim
-	Jamal Shemirani (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)	1979	Kurt Waldheim	Mehdi Bazargan
6	Mansour Farhang	1979–1980	Kurt Waldheim	Council of the Islamic Revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr
-	Jamal Shemirani (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)	1980	Kurt Waldheim	Abolhassan Banisadr
7	Saeed Rajaee Khorasani	1981–1987	Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Ali Khamenei
8	Mohammad Ja'afar Mahallati	1987–1988 (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.) 1988–1989 (Permanent representative)	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
9	Kamal Kharazi	1989–1997	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
10	Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian	1997–2002	Kofi Annan	Mohammad Khatami
11	Mohammad Javad Zarif	2002–2007	Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon	Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12	Mohammad Khazaee	2007–2014	Ban Ki-moon	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Rouhani
-	Gholamhossein Dehghani (Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)	2014–2015	Ban Ki-moon	Hassan Rouhani
13	Gholamali Khoshroo	2015–	Ban Ki-moon	Hassan Rouhani

External links

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See also

• Foreign Relations of Iran