Ali Akbar Velayati Politician

Ali Akbar Velayati About this sound pronunction (علی‌اکبر ولایتی; born 24 June 1945) is an Iranian politician, academic and diplomat. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for more than sixteen years from 1981 to 1997 under Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Presidents Ali Khamenei and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He is the first and only person that have held this position for more than ten years. He is currently head of Center for Strategic Research. He was a candidate in 2013 presidential election and lost, coming fifth out of the six candidates garnering 2,268,753 votes, which was 6.18% of the votes.

Personal facts

Birth dateJune 24, 1945
Birth place
Iran , Tehran
Education
Johns Hopkins University
University of Tehran

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Politician

officeMember of Parliament of Iran
other party
National Front (Iran)
Islamic Republican Party
party
Islamic Coalition Party
president
prime minister
region
Tehran
successor

Ali Akbar Velayati on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.velayati.ir