Hadi Soleimanpour

Hadi Soleimanpour ( Persian هادی سلیمان‌پور; * January 1956 in Isfahan ) is an Iranian diplomat and since August 2018 Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation .

education

In 1984 he became a Bachelor of the KN Toosi University of Technology, named after Nasīr ad-Dīn at-Tūsī . In 2002, he received his PhD in International Relations from Durham University . Since 2016 he has been an associate professor at the School for International Relations in Tehran . From 2003 to 2015 he was Assistant Professor at the School for International Relations in Tehran.

Career

He joined the Iranian Foreign Service and was Deputy Head of the Western Europe Department from 1983 to February 1987. From February 1987 to June 1989 he was ambassador to Madrid . From June 1989 to 1991 he headed the America department. From 1991 to 1995 he was ambassador to Buenos Aires and also accredited to Asunción . During this tenure, the Buenos Aires attack occurred in 1994 . The Iranian ambassadors in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile traveled to Iran before the attack.

Hadi Soleimanpour traveled to Tehran via Miami on June 30th. Soleimanpour and his colleagues later named vacation as a reason for travel, another source reports from a regional ambassadors conference. The Iranian ambassador to Uruguay and Chile boarded the same flight from Santiago de Chile to Frankfurt am Main on July 17, the day before the bombing . In 1999, the federal judge appointed to investigate, Juan Jose Galeano, issued arrest warrants against four senior Iranian officials including Hadi Soleimanpour. In 2003, Hadi Soleimanpour was arrested in London and no evidence was presented to prove that he was involved.

From 1995 to 1997 he headed the United Nations Department . From 1997 to 2000 he was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union and to the Iranian Mission next to the United Nations Office in Geneva . From 2002 to 2004 he was Deputy Head of the Iranian Ministry of the Environment. From 2006 to 2009 he headed the development cooperation department , represented the Iranian government at the Council of Permanent Representatives (Council of Permanent Representatives at the Organization for Economic Cooperation ) and was the representative for the group of eight developing countries . From 2009 to 2011 he was Deputy Foreign Secretary for Africa. From 2011 to 2016 he was Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of the Center for International Research and Education (CIRE) - an institute that is attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , like the Institute for Political and International Studies . From 2015 to 2018 he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Secretariat of the Majles .

From 2016 to 2018 he was an advisor to the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Jawad Zarif . From February to August 2018 he was Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation .

He is married and has two children.

Publications

• International Environmental Governance: Global Trends and National Priorities, Published by CIRE, Tehran, 2012.
• The Nation's Covenant, Soleimanpour, H., Moujani, A., Kashif Al-Ghita, SAS, Published by International Research and Education (CIRE), Tehran, 2012.
• Framework of indicators for Ecotourism Development in Iran, published by Azad University and Center for Strategic Studies, Tehran, 2009.
• Nature-Based Tourism: a Draft International Covenant, Published by Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social policy of IUCN, 2006, available World Conversation Bookstore at Cambridge.
• 2017, Strategic Initiative of Asian Powers in Caspian Region, Journal for Central Asia and the Caucasus Studies, Volume 23, Issue 99, Winter 2018, pp. 51-88.
• With Soleimany, DM (2016), Applying Louis and Spiegel Module to the Integration of Central Asian Countries, Journal for Central Asia and the Caucasus Studies, No. 93, spring 2016, pp. 69-98.
• 2016, China and the Two Continents; Asia and Europe, Quarterly for Foreign Policy, Vol. 3, No. 8, Autumn 2016, pp. 145-179.
• 2014 China and USA vis-à-vis the New Outlook for International Order, Political Sciences Research Review, No. 35, Summer 2014, pp. 111-144.
• With Molaei, E. (2013), Emerging Powers in International System, Quarterly of Foreign Relations, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 7-34.
• With Molaei E, (2012), Possibility or Impossibility of the Continental Integration in Asia, journal for Central Asia and the Caucasus Studies, No. 78, summer 2012, pp. 45-76.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iran's ambassadors to Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile all returned to Iran in the weeks leading up to the AMIA bombing. The Iranian ambassador to Buenos Aires, Hadi Soleimanpour, departed for Tehran by way of Miami on June 30. Though Soleimanpour and his fellow Iranian heads of the mission would later claim they were coincidentally all taking vacation at that partivular time, other officials inteviewed would report they were recalled to Iran for a meeting of regional ambassadors. The Iranian ambassador to Uruguay and Chile boarded the same flight from Santiago, Chile, to Frankfurt, Germany, on July 17, the day before the bombing. See Matthew Levitt-Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God, p. 93
2. Jump up ↑ The federal judge appointed to conduct the investigation, Juan Jose Galeano, issued arrest warrants against four senior Iranian officials in 1999, and also accused the Iranian ambassador, Hadi Soleimanpour, and the cultural attaché, Muhsen ... Ronen Bergman, The Secret War with Iran, [1]
3. ↑ In 2003, Iran's former ambassador to Buenos Aires, Hadi Soleimanpour, was jailed in London at Argentina's request but later freed for lack of evidence. [2]
4. ↑ CIRE, Biography Collection, [3]
5. ↑ [4]

predecessor	Office	successor
Sanaei Farrokhi	Iranian Ambassador to Madrid February 1987 to June 1989	Abdollah Zifan
Mohammad Mehdi Pourmohammadi	Iranian ambassador in Buenos Aires 1991 to 1995	Abdul Rahim Sadatyfar