Seyed Mehdi Miraboutalebi

Seyed Mehdi Miraboutalebi (born April 3, 1952 ) is an Iranian politician and was the ambassador of the Islamic Republic to France from 2008 to 2012.

Life

Seyed Mehdi Miraboutalebi is married and has three children. From 1975 to 1978 he studied civil engineering at the University of Missouri . From 1980 to 1981 he was Deputy Governor of Khorasan . In 1982 he advised the Minister of Energy on the subject of water. From 1982 to 1989 he was managing director and board member of the “Société de construction de barrages et des installations d'irrigation” (SABIR) founded in 1966. From 1989 to 1997 he advised the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO). From 1989 to 1993 he was a board member of the "Société de machines et material pour la construction des routes" (HEPCO). From 1991 to 1993 he was a board member of Pars Khodro . From 1992 to 1997 he headed the Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO).

In 1993 Seyed Mehdi Miraboutalebi joined the foreign service. From 1994 to 1995 he was chargé d'affaires in Paris. From 1995 to 2000 he was ambassador to Turkmenistan . From 2000 to 2001 he was managing director of the energy supply company ENERGY PARS. From 2001 to 2008 he was employed in the Persian Foreign Ministry and represented the Foreign Minister on energy issues.

From October 2008 to 2012 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Iranian government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in France . There Miraboutalebi agitated in 2010 at a meeting of prominent right-wing extremists in Paris against “the Zionist regime that is called Israel”. He went on to claim that a Zionist lobby controlled the American government.

Miraboutalebi is currently working for the Iranian Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 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. ↑ L'ambassadeur d'Iran à la rencontre de l'extrême droite radicale , droites-extremes.blog.lemonde.fr, April 14, 2010.
3. ↑ DIHKEV brochure

predecessor	Office	successor
1969–1973: Hassan Pakravan	Iranian Chargé d'Affaires in Paris 1994–1995	1998: Hamid-Reza Assefi
Gholamreza Bagheri Moghaddam	Iranian ambassador to Turkmenistan 1995–2000	Ibrahim Derazgisou
2002-2006: Sadegh Kharazi	Iranian Ambassador to France October 2008–2012	Ali Ahani