- Kamal Kharazi
Infobox_Politician
name = Kamal Kharazi
birth_date = birth date and age|1944|12|01
birth_place =Tehran ,Iran
office = 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs
term_start =20 August 1997
term_end =24 August 2005
president =Mohammad Khatami
predecessor =Ali Akbar Velayati
successor =Manouchehr Mottaki
party =Association of Combatant Clerics
religion =Shia Islam
alma_mater=University of Tehran ,University of Houston Seyed Kamal Kharazi ( _fa. کمال خرازی) (born1 December ,1944 inTehran as Ali-Naghi Kharazi علینقی خرازی), was theIran ian Minister of Foreign Affairs as appointed by PresidentMohammad Khatami , serving for eight years fromAugust 20 ,1997 toAugust 24 ,2005 . He was replaced byManouchehr Mottaki , as appointed by PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad .Early life
For several years Kharazi has presented the official Iranian position on TV and at university campuses in the
United States andEurope , and has written extensively on foreign policy issues. He had extensive experience in guiding the media during the early days of Iran'sIranian Revolution .From July, 1980 to September, 1989, he was the President of the
Islamic Republic News Agency . OnSeptember 18 ,1980 , theIran–Iraq War broke out, and Kharazi served as a member of theSupreme Defense Council of Iran and headed the War Information Headquarters for most of the war (September, 1980 to September, 1988).During the first months after the Iranian Revolution, Kharazi served as the Vice President of
Iranian National Television (March to August, 1979) for the new Islamic state. He then served as the Vice Minister for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (August, 1979 to March, 1980) and as the Managing Director of the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (August, 1979 to July, 1981).Political career
He got his
B.Sc. inCivil Engineering , and after receiving his master's degree in education at theUniversity of Tehran , he spent a year (1975-1976) as teaching fellow at theUniversity of Houston , where he received a doctorate in education (1976) before returning to Iran. He has been a Professor of Management and Educational Psychology at Tehran University since 1983. Kharazi was a founding member of the Islamic Research Institute inLondon . Kharazi has held a number of governmental, diplomatic and academic posts and headed Iranian delegations at numerous international conferences, most importantly at theEarth Summit held inRio de Janeiro in 1992.Previously, he represented Iran at the
United Nations , from 1989 to 1997. He is trained as an educator, and experienced in the news media.Personal life
Kharrazi is married and has two sons.
He has written or translated a number of textbooks and articles on education and management.
ee also
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Mohsen Kharrazi
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