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Abbas Aram
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
19 July 1962 – 1966
MonarchMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime MinisterAsadollah Alam
In office
1959–1960
MonarchMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime MinisterManouchehr Eghbal
Ali Amini
Personal details
Born1906
Died1985 (aged 78–79)
Resting placeTehran
NationalityIranian

Abbas Aram (1906–1985) was an Iranian diplomat and served as foreign minister for two terms between 1959 and 1960 and between 1962 and 1966. In addition, he was the ambassador of Iran to various countries, including Iraq, the United Kingdom and China.

Career

Aram was the first secretary at the embassy of Iran in the United States in the 1940s.[1] As of 1950 he was serving as the chargé d'affaires there.[2] He was the Iranian ambassador to Japan and then, to Iraq during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[3]

Aram served as foreign minister in the late 1950s and 1960s.[4] More specifically, he was twice appointed foreign minister. His first term was brief, from 1959 to 1960.[5] He was appointed to the post for a second term on 19 July 1962[6] and remained in office until 1966.[7] On 30 April and 1 May 1963 he represented Iran at the eleventh session of CENTO ministerial council in Karachi, Pakistan.[8]

Next Aram served as Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom.[9] He was appointed to the post in February 1967, replacing Ardeshir Zahedi.[10] Aram's tenure ended in November 1969 when Amir Khosrow Afshar was appointed Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom.[11] In December 1973, Aram was appointed Iranian ambassador to China, becoming the first Iranian diplomat served in the post.[12]

Views

In July 1960 in a press conference Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi expressed his positive attitude towards Israel which was harshly criticized by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.[13] Following this incident both states expelled each other's ambassadors, and the Foreign Minister Aram stated that Gamal Abdel Nasser was a "light-headed pharoah who is ruling by bloodshed."[13] In the 1960s Aram was among the Iranian statesmen who favoured Iran's close relations with the U.S. and other Western countries in order to secure the survival of the Pahlavi dynasty.[14]

Later years and death

Aram was arrested following the regime change in 1979, but released later. He died in 1985 and was buried in Behesht-e Zahra.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Iranian Ambassador May Give Uno Case". The Lewiston Daily Sun. Washington. 19 March 1946. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Developments of the Quarter: Comment and Chronology". Middle East Journal. 4 (3): 333. July 1950. JSTOR 4322192.
  3. ^ "The John F. Kennedy Security Files" (PDF). University Publications of America. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  4. ^ Lokman I. Meho (2004). The Kurdish Question in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Documentary Sourcebook. Westport, CT; London: Praeger. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-313-31435-3.
  5. ^ "Minister of Foreign Affairs". Peymanmeli. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  6. ^ "List of Persons". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Persons". FRUS. XXII. 1964–1968.
  8. ^ "Central Treaty Organization". International Organization. 18 (1). 1964. doi:10.1017/S0020818300000515.
  9. ^ "Middle East 1969-1972" (PDF). FRUS. XXIV.
  10. ^ "State Intelligence". London Gazette (Issue 44249). 14 February 1967. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  11. ^ "State Intelligence". London Gazette (Issue 44974). 27 November 1969. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  12. ^ John W. Garver (2006). China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World. Seattle, WA; London: University of Washington Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-295-80121-6.
  13. ^ a b Sohrab C. Sobhani (1989). The pragmatic entente: Israeli-Iranian relations, 1948-1988 (PhD thesis). Georgetown University. p. 80. ProQuest 303710655.
  14. ^ Roham Alvandi (2014). "The Shah's détente with Khrushchev: Iran's 1962 missile base pledge to the Soviet Union". Cold War History. 14 (3): 432. doi:10.1080/14682745.2014.890591.
  15. ^ "گوشه ای از خاطرات عباس آرام". Bukhara. 1 June 2010.

External links

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