In August 2021, Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi unveiled his cabinet and named a diplomat as his foreign minister.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was then an advisor to the Speaker of Parliament for international affairs.
Born in the city of Damghan, Semnan province, in 1964, Amir-Abdollahian held a doctorate in international relations from the University of Tehran and is fluent in Arabic and English, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Amir-Abdollahian served as Iran’s ambassador to Bahrain from 2007 to 2010.
In 2011, under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Amir-Abdollahian was appointed deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, a position he retained for three years in the next government.
Since then, he has served as an advisor for international affairs to two different speakers of parliament.
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