Hamid Reza Assefi ( fa, حمیدرضا آصفی ) was born in Tehran, Iran. Spokesman, Vice Minister of Parliamentary and Consular Affairs and Communication, and the Special Assistant to the Minister at the Iranian

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under President Khatami. He was an

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of Iran during 1994 till 1998.on Iran's Nuclear Intentions
Jan. 2005 He was also Ambassador of Iran to France during the

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where he gave the Iranian fans flags and posters of the

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. On 12 February 2006, he stated that "I believe the crimes committed by the

Zionist regime Zionist entity ( ar, الكيان الصهيوني, ), Zionist regime ( fa, رژیم صهیونیستی, ), and Zionist enemy are interchangeable pejorative terms used predominantly by Arabs and Muslims in reference to the State of Israel. Many ...

are greater than the Holocaust. Unfortunately, the Zionist regime is blackmailing the Europeans with the Holocaust." Speaking about

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that occurred on 31 August 2005 when up to 1,000 people died he said: "

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condolences and sympathy with the Iraqi people and government. Suspicious hands are involved in conspiracies to incite violence and bloodshed among the different Iraqi groups and tribes so that they disturb the security and calm of the Iraqi people" He was Iran's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.

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