10 Facts About Salah Al-Zawawi

Salah Al-Zawawi or among Iranians Salah Zawawi was born in Palestine and was the ambassador of the Palestinian government in Iran.

Salah Al-Zawawi was the second ambassador of Palestine in Iran after Hani al-Hassan and held this position from February 1981 to 2022.

Salah Al-Zawawi is one of the founding members of the Fatah movement and the former Palestinian ambassador to Algeria, Brazil and Kenya.

Salah Al-Zawawi's family immigrated to Syria in 1948 and settled in the city of Aleppo.

Salah Al-Zawawi was always respected by all ambassadors of other countries in Tehran.

On Thursday, January 6,2022, at the end of his mission in Iran, Salah al-Zawawi met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Salam al-Zawawi, the daughter of Salah al-Zawawi, became the new Palestinian ambassador to Iran after her father, took the oath before Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, on Saturday night, January 8,2022, and started working as the new Palestinian ambassador to Iran.

When Salah al-Zawawi died, many Iranian officials, including Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, expressed their condolences.

Salah Al-Zawawi died on February 20,2023, at the age of 86.

Salah Al-Zawawi's body was buried in the section of Naam Aavaraan of the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran.