Manutschehr Mottaki

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Manutschehr Mottaki (2008)

Manutschehr Mottaki , Persian منوچهر متکی, (Born May 12, 1953 in Bandar-e-gaz, Golestan Province ) is an Iranian politician and was his country's foreign minister from August 2005 to December 2010 .

Political career

Beginnings

Mottaki studied social sciences and received a BA from Bangalore University in India in 1976 . In 1996 he received a master's from the University of Tehran in International Relations. Mottaki won a seat in the Iranian parliament as early as 1980 . He became Ambassador to Turkey in 1985, Deputy Foreign Minister for International Affairs in 1989, Vice Foreign Minister in 1992 and Ambassador to Japan in 1994 . In 2005 Mottaki was nominated as Foreign Minister by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . He has long been considered a critic of the negotiations with the EU on the Iranian nuclear program and has repeatedly affirmed his country's claim to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Tension and resignation

According to two Iranian parliamentarians , Mottaki announced his resignation as foreign minister on October 23, 2007. However, he made it clear the following day that he had not resigned. This process is seen by observers as a sign of increasing tensions within the Iranian government. On December 13, 2010, Mottaki was dismissed from office by Ahmadinejad while he was on an official state visit to Senegal . Reasons for this decision were not given. It is believed that the dismissal is related to Mottaki's most recent willingness to compromise in the nuclear dispute. Another suspicion is a proxy conflict between Ahmadinejad and Parliament President Ali Larijani , since Mottaki is considered to be his “close companion”. Mottaki criticized his dismissal with the words: "Dismissing a minister who is currently on a trip abroad is against the rules of Islam and diplomacy."

Political positions

holocaust

On December 11, 2006, Mottaki opened the Holocaust denial conference in Iran initiated by Ahmadinejad in Tehran , which was understood as an anti-Israel propaganda and publicity event and generally as an insult to the murdered Jews. Holocaust deniers and right-wing extremists such as David Irving , David Duke , Fredrick Toben , Horst Mahler and Roger Garaudy were invited to the conference . Mahler's passport had been withdrawn in advance in order not to damage the reputation of the Federal Republic of Germany abroad. The Iranian Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin was summoned to the Foreign Office by the German government to take on Germany's displeasure and anger.

Israel

In Mottaki's view (speech of February 18, 2008) the West tried “to impose an artificially fabricated regime on the Middle East. However, even after sixty years, the Zionist regime (Israel) has neither gained legitimacy nor played a role in the region. "

Human rights

The Foreign Minister responded to allegations about the human rights situation in Iran with counter- allegations : the international criticism of the impending stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for adultery ( Zina ) was a “campaign by people who, with the help of some European politicians and the media, were playing a game of deliberation float". The number of seven stoning in five years, not confirmed by Mottaki, “shows that this sentence is very rarely carried out.” With at least 388 executions in 2009, Iran ranks second on the list of countries with the death penalty , behind twenty times more China counting residents .

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  1. ^ Lobalsecurity.org, Biography of Mottaki
  2. ^ Bahman Nirumand: Ahmadinejad under pressure , the daily newspaper, October 25, 2007
  3. ↑ Ahmadinejad dismisses his foreign minister. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 13, 2010, accessed July 16, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Die Zeit.de of December 13, 2010 Mottaki's expulsion indicates a power struggle in Iran
  5. ↑ Spiegel.de of December 19, 2010 The foreign minister hailed criticized Ahmadinejad
  6. ↑ Joshua Teitelbaum: Jerusalem Center of July 3, 2008 The Iranian leadership in their own words about the destruction of Israel
  7. ↑ a b weekly magazine Der Spiegel , Dieter Bednarz : The West lacks maturity. The Iranian Foreign Minister Manutschehr Mottaki, 57, on the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of the Western sanctions policy and the risk of a military strike against his country , Spiegel no. 35, Aug 30, 2010, page 98

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SURNAME Mottaki, Manutschehr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES منوچهر متکی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bandar-e-gaz, Golestan Province