Ali Akbar Velayati

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Ali-Akbar Velayati or Welajati ( Persian علی‌اکبر ولایتی; * June 25, 1945 in Shemiran ) is an Iranian politician and was Foreign Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1997 . Velayati is currently the foreign policy advisor to the revolutionary leader Seyyed Ali Chamene'i and was chosen by the Guardian Council as a candidate for a parliamentary seat in the Iranian parliamentary elections in 2012 .

Life

Velayati studied medicine at the University of Tehran , specializing in paediatrics, a. a. also at Johns Hopkins University . Until shortly before the Islamic revolution , Velayati worked as a pediatrician in San Francisco . With the Iranian presidential election in 1981 and Chamene'i's election victory, Velayati was appointed foreign minister by him and remained under the presidency of Ali Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjani until Mohammad Chātami was elected Iran's foreign minister.

On November 10, 1995, a majority of German members of the Bundestag decided to withdraw the invitation to the then Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velayati to participate in an Islam conference in Bonn . The reason for the summons were statements by the then incumbent President Hashemi Rafsanjani on the occasion of the terrorist attack on Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin .

More recently, Velayati drew attention to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's criticism : “The government is responsible for the nuclear issue” and “its representatives should avoid illogical and provocative slogans.” When asked whether the Holocaust was a historical reality, Velayati replied in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica on February 14, 2007: "Yes, but we do not accept that this reality is used as a justification for the oppression of the Palestinians."

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  1. ^ The role of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Middle East, PRO ASYL, Germany, 1998. ( Memento from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Reuters, July 1, 2008
  3. ^ Ali Akbar Velayati, Advisor To The Leader: “Everything is negotiable” ( Memento of January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Velayati, Ali Akbar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welajati, Ali Akbar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Shemiran