Parviz Afshari

Parviz Afshari ( Persian پرویز افشاری) is a former Iranian diplomat , deputy head of the Iranian drug prevention agency and author since 2015 .

Career

In 1981 he joined the foreign service, spent three months in the passport department and then three months in the finance department.

On July 31, 1987, 402 people were killed (275 Iranians, 85 Saudis, including police officers, and 42 pilgrims from other countries) in clashes between Iranian pilgrims from Mecca and Saudi crowd managers . On August 1, 1987, the Saudi embassy in Tehran was stormed, looted, the staff present were illegally deprived of their liberty, ill-treated and the residence of Saudi diplomats attacked, with the result that a Saudi official died of his injuries.

The Iranian Chargé d'affaires in Riyadh , Hussein Sadeqi , was declared a persona non grata and had to leave Saudi Arabia within 48 hours. In this situation Parviz Afshari became Chargé d'Affaires in Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia ). For the pilgrimage year 1988, the Saudi government reduced the quota from 150,000 to 45,000 visas for Iranian pilgrims to Mecca and broke off diplomatic relations.

His further career in the diplomatic service took him to Baghdad , Iraq ; In 1995 he was Counselor in Ottawa ;; In 2001 he was Counselor in Kuala Lumpur ; and 2010 to Astana (since 2019 Nur-Sultan) in Kazakhstan .

In 2015, he became deputy head of the Iranian drug prevention agency .

publication

• سفیر بدون سفارت ، وکیل بدون موکل. خاطرات پرویز افشاری(Ambassador without an embassy, ​​lawyer without employees. Memories from Parviz Afshari). 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1987 Hajj Incident, But the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Iranian Embassy in Riyadh, Parviz Afshari, complained a heavy police guard was still stationed around his embassy premises. He also claimed that the Iranian consulate in Jidda was cordoned off. [1]
2. ↑ Diplomatic, Consular, and Other Representatives in Canada, Department of External Affairs of Canada, 1995, inverted
3. ↑ Globalization and the Knowledge-Economy Seminar, 30-31 January 2001, Parkroyal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.), 2001, p. 7
4. ↑ Mr. Afshari Parviz, Minister Counselor, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Astana, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific Sixth session Astana, September 27 - October 2, 2010 , [2]
5. ↑ [3]

predecessor	Office	successor
Mojtaba Hashemi Hussein Sadeqi	Iranian Chargé d'Affaires in Riyadh August 18, 1987 to 1988	Mohammad Ali Najafabadi