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. The current office holder is Ali Akbar Salehi

Ali Akbar Salehi

Ali Akbar Salehi is an Iranian politician, diplomat and academic and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 13 December 2010. Previous to his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from 16 July 2009 to 13 December 2010...

since 13 December 2011.

List of Ministers

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Mirza Abdulvahab Khan Mowtamed-ol Neshat	5 March 1911	30 September 1921
2	Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari	30 September 1921	1 October 1925
3	Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III Prince Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III, GCMG eldest son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and Princess Ezzat-Dowleh. He was born at some time near 1889, and died in April 1937. Grandson of his name-sake, Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, and of Mozzafar-al-Din Shah Qajar through his mother...	1 October 1925	1 October 1938
4	Ali Soheili Ali Soheili Ali Soheili was a Prime Minister of Iran.Born in Tabriz, he served as Prime Minister in 1942, and Ambassador to Britain in 1953.The Tehran Conference took place during his administration....	1 October 1938	7 March 1939
5	Mowzafar Alam	7 March 1939	20 April 1943
6	Hossein Ala' Hossein Ala' Hosein Alā was a Prime Minister of Iran during 1951. He was born in 1882 in Tehran and spent his early years in London. He was educated at Westminster School and studied law at the University of London after which he was admitted to the bar at Inner Temple...	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 Hossein Fatemi Hossein Fatemi was a scholar, journalist, and famous politician of Iran. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953...	5 May 1951	19 August 1953
12	Abdol-Hossein Meftah	19 August 1953	7 April 1953
13	Fazlollah Zahedi Fazlollah Zahedi Mohammad Fazlollah Zahedi was an Iranian general and statesman who replaced democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq through a western-backed coup d'état, in which he played a major role.-Early years:Born in Hamedan in 1897, Fazlollah Zahedi was the son of Abol Hassan...	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 Jafar Sharif-Emami Jafar Sharif-Imami was an Iranian politician who was Prime Minister from 1960 to 1961 and again in 1978. He was a cabinet minister, president of the Iranian Senate, president of the Pahlavi Foundation, president of the Iran Chamber of Industries and Mines, and twice prime minister during the reign...	30 July 1960	1 December 1960
18	Hossein Ghods-Nakhai Hossein Ghods-Nakhai Hossein Ghods-Nakhaï , was an Iranian poet, politician, cabinet minister, and diplomat.-Family background:He was the son of the Iranian cleric, Hajj Agha Hasan Nakhai, originally from Hezar-Jarib in the Mazandaran province. Like his father, Hossein's surname was initially Nakhai... (Acting)	1 December 1960	30 December 1960
19	Abbas Aram	30 December 1960	3 March 1966
20	Ardeshir Zahedi Ardeshir Zahedi Ardeshir Zahedi was an important Iranian diplomat during the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the country's foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom.-Early life:...	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 Karim Sanjabi Karim Sanjabi was an Iranian liberal political leader of the 20th century. He was born in Kermanshah, Iran.-Early life:...	11 February 1979	1 April 1979
25	Mehdi Bazargan Mehdi Bazargan Mehdi Bazargan was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was the head of the first engineering department of Tehran University... (Acting)	1 April 1979	12 April 1979
26	Ebrahim Yazdi Ebrahim Yazdi Ebrahim Yazdi is an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest to the Iran hostage crisis...	12 April 1979	12 November 1979
27	Abolhassan Banisadr Abolhassan Banisadr Abulhassan Banisadr is an Iranian politician, economist and human rights activist who served as the first President of Iran from 4 February 1980 after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the abolition of the monarchy until his impeachment on 21 June 1981 by the Parliament of Iran...	12 November 1979	29 November 1979
28	Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and Iranian Foreign Minister during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution...	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 Mir-Hossein Mousavi Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh is an Iranian reformist politician, artist and architect who served as the seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a Reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election...	15 August 1981	15 December 1981
32	Ali Akbar Velayati Ali Akbar Velayati Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian politician, academic and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1997...	15 December 1981	20 August 1997
33	Kamal Kharazi	20 August 1997	24 August 2005
34	Manouchehr Mottaki Manouchehr Mottaki Manouchehr Mottaki is an Iranian politician and diplomat. He was the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Whilst technically appointed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he is considered to be closer to more pragmatic conservative factions and during the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign...	24 August 2005	13 December 2010
35	Ali Akbar Salehi Ali Akbar Salehi Ali Akbar Salehi is an Iranian politician, diplomat and academic and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 13 December 2010. Previous to his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from 16 July 2009 to 13 December 2010...	13 December 2010	Incumbent

List of Ministers

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