Kamal Kharazi

Kamal Kharrazi (Persian کمال خرازی [k ʲ ː l æmɔ xær ː ɔ ː zi ː ]; born December 1, 1944 in Tehran ) was of 20 August 1997 to 24 August 2005, the Foreign Minister of Iran.

Life

Kharrazi is a trained educator, studied until 1976 in Houston Education and graduated with the Doctor 's degree. After his return to Iran, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Education and Vice - President of the state television later from 1980 to 1989 President of the Islamic Republic News Agency ( IRNA ), the official Iranian news agency during the early days of the Islamic revolution. From 1989 to 1997 he represented Iran at the United Nations. Since August 20, 1997 Kamal Kharrazi was foreign minister in the cabinet of Iranian President Mohammad Chātemī.

Political action

In 2001 Kharrazi visited Egypt, where he met with Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak. During this visit, the terrorist attacks of September 11 were convicted and rejected terrorism. Regarding the situation in Iraq said Kharrazi on May 24, 2003, compared to the London-based Arabic-language newspaper " Al -Hayat ":

"We had begun to form a supported by the majority of the people government in Iraq with the Americans an honest dialogue, but they have repeatedly changed their minds and their representatives in Iraq. "

Family

Kharrazi is married and has two children. His nephew Sadegh Kharrazi is an Iranian ambassador in Paris and was instrumental in the development of the so-called roadmap or " Swiss Memo".