Kamal Kharrazi

Kamal Kharrazi with Russian President Vladimir Putin , 2002

Kamal Charrazi ( Persian کمال خرازی[ kʲæˈmɔːl xærːɔːˈziː ]; * 1. December 1944 in Tehran was) of 20 August 1997 to 24 August 2005, the Foreign Minister of Iran .

Life

Charrazi is a trained educator , studied education in Houston until 1976 and graduated with a doctorate. After returning to Iran, he was Deputy Foreign Minister, Minister of Education and Vice President of State Television during the early days of the Islamic Revolution , and later from 1980 to 1989 President of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the official Iranian news agency . From 1989 to 1997 he represented Iran at the United Nations . Since August 20, 1997, Kamal Kharrazi was Foreign Minister in the cabinet of President Mohammad Chātami .

Political activity

In 2001, Kharrazi visited Egypt where he met with President Hosni Mubarak . During this visit the terrorist attacks of September 11th were condemned and terrorism was rejected. Regarding the situation in Iraq , Kharrazi told the Arabic-language newspaper "Al-Hayat" in London on May 24, 2003:

"We had started an honest dialogue with the Americans to form a majority-supported government in Iraq, but they kept changing their minds, and so did their representatives in Iraq."

family

Charrazi is married and has two children. His nephew Sadegh Charrazi is the Iranian ambassador in Paris and was instrumental in the development of the so-called roadmap or " Swiss memo ".

Web links

Commons : Kamal Charrazi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ salamiran.org ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ bbc.co.uk
3. ↑ uni-kassel.de
4. ^ Translation of the 'Swiss Memo' ( Memento of November 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )