Ali Asghar Soltanieh
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Ali Asghar Soltanieh is Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...

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He has studied at Utah State University
Utah State University
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 in the United States
United States
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For the three years immediately prior to taking up his position in Vienna, Ambassador Soltanieh was Head of Iran's National Escort Team for IAEA Inspections; a member of delegation to the IAEA Board of Governors and General Conference; and a member of the negotiating team, lran-EU3/EU Negotiation on Nuclear Energy.

Ambassador Soltanieh is a nuclear physicist by training and as Associate Professor at faculties of science and international relations in various universities between 1988 and 1997 taught and supervised graduate students in nuclear physics
Nuclear physics
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, and from 2000 to the present in disarmament & international security.

During the last quarter of the century he has been involved, as a nuclear physicist and senior diplomat, in the capacity of special envoy, delegate, chief negotiator, and invited speaker, in numerous international events on disarmament and international security, such as NPT, CWC, BWC, CTBT, CCW, and has worked closely with the relevant international scientific and technical organizations such as UN, IAEA, OPCW, and other specialized international organizations such as WHO
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, ILO
Ilo
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, IPU
IPU
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, QIC, WMO, TWAS and ICDO. He has published several papers in aforementioned areas.

The Ambassador is married, with two children.
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