Ali Reza Sheikh Attar
Ali Reza Sheikh Attar ( Persian علیرضا شیخ عطار Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar , DMG ʿAlīreżā Šayḫ ʿAṭṭār ; * June 9, 1952 in Tehran ) is an Iranian diplomat and was the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Germany from 2008 to 2014.
Life
After a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran , Sheikh Attar obtained a master's degree in management. Sheikh Attar speaks Persian (mother tongue), English and Turkish as well as Arabic. He is married and has three children.
Professional and diplomatic activities
According to the Iranian Embassy, Attar's résumé contains the following stations:
| from | to | activity as |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1977 | Engineer at the Polyacryl company |
| 1977 | 1979 | Director of the polyacrylic company |
| 1980 | 1985 | Governor of the provinces of Kordestān and West Azerbaijan |
| 1985 | 1989 | Deputy Minister of Industry |
| 1990 | 1992 | Adviser to the Iranian Foreign Minister for the CIS countries |
| 1992 | 1998 | Ambassador to India |
| 1998 | 1999 | Director General in the Office of the Foreign Minister |
| 1999 | 2005 | Adviser to the Supreme National Security Council and Director of Research for Asia at the Center for Strategic Studies |
| 2003 | 2005 | Managing director and editor-in-chief of Hamshahri newspaper |
| 2005 | 2007 | Vice Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs |
| 2007 | 2008 | Deputy Foreign Minister and Deputy Minister for the Middle East and CIS countries |
| 2008 | 2014 | Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Germany |
Sheikh Attar is considered a close follower of the controversial former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad , who was governor of the province of Ardabil at the same time as Sheikh Attar's activity as governor in the province of Kordestān .
Ambassador to Germany
On October 24, 2008, Sheikh Attar, who does not speak German, was accredited as Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Germany after a long diplomatic tug of war. He succeeded the former ambassador Mohammad-Mehdi Achundsade Basti , who stayed in office only shortly after the long-standing Iranian ambassador Seyed Shamseddin Khareghani . Sheikh Attar stood at the interface between two countries whose bilateral traditions go back to the imperial era of the German Empire and were interrupted twice from 1917 to 1922 due to the First World War and from 1941 to 1953 due to the Second World War. Ali Majedi has been his successor since 2014 .
The ambassador to Germany is considered to be the coordinator of the Western European ambassadors of the Iranian government. Sheikh Attar is repeatedly addressed by so-called urgent actions by Amnesty International .
criticism
Sheikh Attar's past as governor of the provinces of Kordestān and West Azerbaijan repeatedly led to massive criticism, open protest and the exclusion of the ambassador from invitations, as happened on the occasion of lectures at the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Naumann Foundation , a conference in the Queen Luise Foundation in Berlin, a panel discussion in Osnabrück in June 2010 and a discussion with Rüdiger Safranski on October 15, 2011, planned by the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation and canceled at short notice due to protests .
Kurdish opposition members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and human rights activists accuse his older brother Hossein Sheikh Attar to have been involved in the assassination attempt on Shapur Bakhtiar .
See also
Fonts
- 1982: Kurdistan
- 1992: The Roots of Political Behavior in the Caucasus and Central Asia
- 2002: Religion and Politics in India
- 2003: The Kurds and the regional and supra-regional powers
- numerous contributions in Persian and English on the topics of management, Central Asia, India, Iraq and Kurdistan
Web links
- Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Live stream of the Phoenix broadcaster of a panel discussion on June 16, 2009 with journalists after the controversial presidential elections in Iran
- Interview of the WDR broadcast Panorama from October 15, 2009 on Iran's secret service activities
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Diplomatic Magazine : New Ambassadors: HE Ali Reza Sheikh Attar
- ↑ iranembassy.de ( Memento of December 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) The ambassador's résumé , accessed on February 7, 2013
- ↑ The Polyacryl Iran Corporation (PIC) in Isfahan was founded in 1974 and is, according to its own statements, the only company in Iran that produces polyester fibers.
- ^ TV station Phoenix, June 16, 2009: Live stream of the station Phoenix of a discussion on June 16, 2009 with journalists ( memento of November 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) after the controversial presidential elections in Iran
- ↑ List of the heads of the German representation in Tehran
- ↑ Jungle World , June 4, 2009: No chance for the Sheikh. The Iranian ambassador to Germany is one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's loyalists. The green Böll Foundation had invited him and now had to back down.
- ↑ Politics magazine Panorama of the NDR , October 15, 2009: The Regmine follows its critics with excerpts from an interview with Sheikh Attar, in which he comments on the activities of the Iranian secret service in Germany
- ^ Matthias Küntzel : The Germans and Iran. Past and present of a fateful friendship, Wjs-Verlag, October 2009
- ↑ Rejection after protests against Iran ambassadors
- ↑ Rejection after protests Iranian ambassador does not come to Neuhardenberg ( Memento from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rejection after protests against Iran ambassadors
- ↑ iranhrdc.org Assassination of Political Dissidents Abroad , accessed February 7, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sheikh Attar, Ali Reza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sheikh Attar, Ali Reza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |