Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Persian: سخنگوی وزارت امور خارجه) is an official whose primary responsibility is to serve as the spokesperson for Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[1]

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Tenure	Spokesperson	Minister	Supreme Leader	President
1982 – 1997	Morteza Sarmadi	Ali-Akbar Velayati	Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei	Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1992 – 16 November 1998	Mahmoud Mohammadi	Ali-Akbar Velayati		Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1992 – 16 November 1998	Mahmoud Mohammadi	Kamal Kharazi	Ali Khamenei	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami
16 November 1998 – 10 September 2006	Hamid-Reza Assefi	Kamal Kharazi		Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami
16 November 1998 – 10 September 2006	Hamid-Reza Assefi	Manouchehr Mottaki		Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
10 September 2006 – 21 July 2008	Mohammad Ali Hosseini
21 July 2008 – 12 October 2009	Hassan Ghashghavi
12 October 2009 – 11 May 2013	Ramin Mehmanparast
12 October 2009 – 11 May 2013	Ramin Mehmanparast	Ali-Akbar Salehi
11 May 2013 – 30 August 2013	Abbas Araghchi
1 September 2013 – 8 November 2015	Marzieh Afkham
1 September 2013 – 8 November 2015	Marzieh Afkham	Mohammad Javad Zarif		Hassan Rouhani
8 November 2015 – 19 June 2016	Hossein Jaberi Ansari
19 June 2016 – 12 April 2019	Bahram Ghasemi
12 April 2019 – 16 August 2020	Abbas Mousavi
16 August 2020 – 27 June 2022	Saeed Khatibzadeh	Mohammad Javad Zarif, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian		Hassan Rouhani, Ebrahim Raisi
27 June 2022 – Present	Nasser Kanaani	Hossein Amir-Abdollahian		Ebrahim Raisi

^ ^a ^b همه سخنگویان دستگاه دیپلماسی جمهوری اسلامی [All Spokespersons of Islamic Republic Diplomacy Apparatus]. Fars News (in Persian). 30 August 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2016.

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