Ali Akbar Salehi
Ali Akbar Salehi ( Persian علیاکبر صالحی; * March 24, 1949 in Karbala , Iraq ) is an Iranian scientist , university professor and former Vice President and Foreign Minister of Iran . After the Iranian Foreign Minister Manutschehr Mottaki was dismissed by President Mahmud Ahmadineschād on December 13, 2010 , Salehi temporarily took over the office of Iranian Foreign Minister. Until May 26, 2011, Salehi was head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency (AEOI) and responsible for the national nuclear program. That is why Salehi was on Europe's sanction lists, which are supposed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology in Iran. Since August 15, 2013, Salehi has been the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency again.
Life
After attending school, he studied at the American University of Beirut and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). In 1977 he received his PhD in Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. ) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . After his return to Iran, he took on a teaching position as an associate professor at Sharif University of Technology and was later also Chancellor of this university from 1988 to 1993 . As such, he also became a member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy .
In 1998 he was appointed permanent representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and he held this post until 2004. In this position, he signed the Additional Protocol to the Protection Agreement for Iran on December 18, 2003.
On January 20, 2004 he was appointed Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadineschād in 2005, Salehi was acted as foreign minister, but was not appointed.
On July 16, 2009, he was appointed as the successor to Gholam Reza Aghazadeh as head of the Iranian nuclear program and has been Minister for Atomic Energy in the second cabinet of Ahmadineschād since August 3, 2009 . At the same time, he has been Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran since December 5, 2009 and thus a representative of President Ahmadineschād.
In February 2010, he announced the construction of two further uranium enrichment facilities from mid-March 2010. In August 2010, the first Iranian nuclear power plant , built with the help of Russia , was officially opened in Bushehr .
On May 26, 2011 Salehi handed over the leadership of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency to Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani . On June 21, 2011, impeachment proceedings were initiated against Salehi. The trigger was the appointment of Reza Malekzadeh as Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister. Malekzadeh is considered a close confidante of Mahmoud Ahmadineschād . On August 15, 2013, Salehi was reappointed head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency by President Rouhani.
Web links
- Paul-Anton Krüger: Master of the piano. Ali Akbar Salehi. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 17, 2009, accessed December 6, 2011 (portrait of Salehi on the occasion of his appointment as head of the Iranian nuclear program).
- Andreas Ross: "We are not looking for adventure". Iran's Foreign Minister. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 5, 2011, accessed December 6, 2011 (interview with Salehi on the nuclear dispute).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ PressTV, December 13, 2010
- ↑ Official Journal of the European Union, July 27, 2010: Persons and entities involved in nuclear activities or activities in connection with ballistic missiles (PDF) , page L 195/61
- ↑ Iranian FM, a driving force behind the nuclear program, visits New York ( memento of March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Realite, September 20, 2011
- ^ “Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK” (PDF; 609 kB), HM Treasury, January 24, 2012
- ↑ THE HUFFINGTON POST: Ali Akbar Salehi: Ahmadinejad Appoints US-Educated Physicist As New Nuclear Chief (July 17, 2009) ( Memento of October 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ AL JAZEERA: Ali Akbar Salehi-The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency talks to Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri (February 13, 2010)
- ↑ FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: With Russian support-First nuclear power plant in Iran officially opened (August 21, 2010)
- ^ ORF: Iranian Foreign Minister Salehi visits Vienna
- ↑ Der Standard: Parliament takes on Ahmadinejad again
- ↑ Der Standard: Parliamentarians want to remove Foreign Minister Salehi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salehi, Ali Akbar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | علیاکبر صالحی (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karbala , Iraq |