1. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as foreign minister of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.
18 Facts About Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was the deputy foreign minister for Arab and African Affairs between 2011 and 2016.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister during the ministry of Ali Akbar Salehi, which was retained in the first three years of Mohammad Javad Zarif's ministry.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was professor at the Foreign Ministry's School of International Relations.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was married in 1994 and had a son and a daughter.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had a bachelor's degree in Diplomatic Relations from the Faculty of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a master's degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tehran University, and a PhD in International Relations from Tehran University.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian supported the Resistance Front, which is affiliated with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria, and other currents aligned with the Islamic Republic of Iran that are in conflict with Israel.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was a member of the Political and Security Committee of the Nuclear Negotiations during the nuclear talks during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was the first Iranian official to be invited to London for regional talks after the reopening of the London embassy in Tehran during Hassan Rouhani's first term, and to meet with then-British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was the head of the Iranian negotiating team at the Iran-Iraq-US trilateral meeting in Baghdad in 2007.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian later said of the talks that the Americans left the scene when they heard a logical word and did not have a logical answer.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian further elaborated about the beginning of the US negotiations that the US thought that they should set the agenda, but the Islamic Republic did not allow them to do so, and it was decided that the agenda should be set by agreement of the parties.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had a close relationship with Qasem Soleimani, and this was due to two decades of responsibility in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially in the Arab and African positions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran.
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When Soleimani became commander of the Quds Force, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was an Iraqi expert at the Foreign Ministry.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian believed that without Soleimani, the major countries in the region would have disintegrated.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was visiting professor at the Faculty of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with the Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al Khulaifi in July 2023.
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote Levant's Morning, a narrative of the Syrian crisis.