Seyed Abbas Araghchi ( fa, سید عباس عراقچی, ; born 5 December 1962 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

) is an Iranian

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who is the former political deputy at the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( fa, وزارت امور خارجه, Vezārat-e Omūr-e Khārejeh) is an Iranian government ministry headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is a member of cabinet. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs ...

from 2017 to 2021. He previously held office as the Deputy for Asia–Pacific and the Commonwealth Affairs and Legal and International Affairs of the

. He served as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in talks with the

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, in

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

's government. Araghchi entered the Foreign Ministry in 1989. In early 1990s, he served as

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of the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the

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, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served as ambassador to

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(1999-2003) and

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(2007–2011). Prior to becoming Ambassador, Araghchi served as Director General of the

Institute for Political and International Studies The Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) ( fa, دفتر مطالعات سیاسی و بین‌المللی) is a foreign policy think tank based in Tehran, Iran and affiliated to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was fo ...

(IPIS). From 2004 to 2005, he was chancellor of School of International Relations.

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1960 births Living people People from Tehran Iranian diplomats Alumni of the University of Kent Ambassadors of Iran to Japan Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch alumni Spokespersons for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel of the Iran–Iraq War {{iran-diplomat-stub