List of Iranian ambassadors to the United States
The interest group of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States is located in a building belonging to the protecting power Pakistan at 2209 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC and has accredited 70 to 80 Iranian diplomats.
history
1904: Residence of Eshagh Khan Mofakhamed-Dovleh , followed by his cousin Mirza Ali Kuli Khan.
until 1980 the embassy was at 3003-3005 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC
ambassador
Appointed | Accredited | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | accredited at | Leave post |
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1886 | Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab | vulgo Haji Washington | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah | William McKinley | ||
May 17, 1897 | Mirza Alinaghi Khan | Ambassador in special mission میرزا علی نقی خان | Aug 1897 | |||
Dec 11, 1900 | June 1904 | Eshagh Khan Mofakhamed-Dovleh | Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire opened a mission abroad | |||
1904 | May 4, 1904 | Morteza Khan Momtazel whey | Feb. 24, 1905 | |||
Aug 31, 1910 | Mirza Ali Kuli Khan | Chargé followers of the Bahá'í Faith | Ahmad Shah Qajar | William Howard Taft | ||
March 17, 1914 | Mehdi Khan | Woodrow Wilson | ||||
Apr 25, 1918 | Mirza Ali-Kuli Khan, Nabil-ed-Dovleh | |||||
June 18, 1919 | Aug 8, 1919 | Abdul Ali Khan Sadigh-es-Saltaneh | ||||
Aug 30, 1921 | Nov 15, 1921 | Hossein Ala | Warren G. Harding | |||
Oct 5, 1926 | Fathollah Khan Noury Esfandiary | Chargé d'affaires | Reza Shah Pahlavi | Calvin Coolidge | ||
December 7, 1926 | Mirza Davoud Khan Meftah | |||||
Oct 17, 1931 | Yadollah Azodi | Herbert Hoover | ||||
June 12, 1933 | Ghaffar Jalal | April 1, 1935 Persia is renamed Iran . Ghaffar Jalal arrested during a roadside check on November 27, 1935, in violation of his diplomatic immunity. Reza Shah Pahlavi ceased diplomatic relations with the Franklin D. Roosevelt cabinet in March 1936 . | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||
Jan. 14, 1936 | Hossein Ghods-Nachai | Chargé d'affaires | ||||
May 1936 | No Iranian diplomatic mission in the United States protecting power Turkey | Feb. 1939 | ||||
Jan 25, 1939 | Ali Akbar Daftary | Chargé d'Affaires resumption of diplomatic relations. | ||||
Jan. 11, 1940 | H. Hadjeb-Davallou | Chargé d'affaires | ||||
Feb 7, 1940 | Feb 13, 1940 | Mohammed Schayesteh | ||||
Nov 19, 1945 | Nov 29, 1945 | Hossein Ala | Ambassador, November 29, 1945: Legation upgraded to embassy | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Harry S. Truman | |
8 Sep 1950 | Sep 18 1950 | Nasrollah Entezam | ||||
Sep 18 1952 | Sep 24 1952 | Allah-Yar Saleh | ||||
28 Sep 1953 | Abbas Aram | Chargé d'affaires | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |||
Oct 22, 1953 | Nov 2, 1953 | Nasrollah Entezam | ||||
Jan. 19, 1956 | Jan. 24, 1956 | Ali Amini | ||||
May 14, 1958 | May 22, 1958 | Ali Gholi Ardalan | ||||
March 16, 1960 | March 23, 1960 | Ardeschir Zahedi | ||||
March 30, 1962 | Apr 6, 1962 | Hossein Ghods-Nachai | John F. Kennedy | |||
Apr 5, 1963 | Apr 24, 1963 | Mahmoud Foroughi | Lyndon B. Johnson | |||
May 11, 1965 | June 7, 1965 | Khosrow Khosrovani | ||||
May 17, 1967 | May 25, 1967 | Hushang Ansari | ||||
Oct 16, 1969 | Amir Aslan Afshar | Richard Nixon | ||||
March 7, 1973 | Apr 9, 1973 | Ardeschir Zahedi | Apr 7, 1980 | |||
Apr 7, 1980 | Tehran hostage-taking. Cessation of diplomatic relations between the governments. Protecting power Pakistan | Abolhassan Banisadr | Jimmy Carter |
Individual evidence
- ^ Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States
- ↑ Mirza Ali Kuli Khan
- ↑ Kamran Scot Aghaie, Afshin Marashi, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity, 2014, books.google.de
- ↑ Iran. Office of the Chief of Protocol to the United States: Chronological Listing by Country