Amir Khosrow Afshar Explained

Office:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Predecessor:Abbas Ali Khalatbari
Successor:Ahmad Mirfendereski
Term Start:27 August 1978
Term End:5 January 1979
Birth Place:Tehran, Qajar Iran
Nationality:Iranian

Amir Khosrow Afshar (1919–1999; Persian: امیرخسرو افشار قاسملو) was an Iranian diplomat, who served as the minister of foreign affairs of Iran during the Shah era from 1978 to 1979.

Biography

Born in 1919 in Tehran, Afshar was a career diplomat. At the beginning of the 1950s he was the political joint secretary at the foreign ministry.[1] [2] He later assumed the posts of the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and deputy foreign minister.[3] [4] In 1960, he was the acting minister of foreign affairs.[5]

While serving as the deputy to Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian foreign minister, Afshar was named as the chief Iranian negotiator on the Bahrain question in 1968.[6] [7] Next, he was appointed ambassador of Iran to the Court of St James's on 6 November 1969, succeeding Abbas Aram in the post.[8] [9] He held this position until December 1974 when he was replaced by Muhammad Reza Amir Teymour in the post.[10] [11]

Afshar also served as the ambassador of Iran to West Germany and to France.[5] He was appointed foreign minister to the cabinet led by Jafar Sharif-Emami on 27 August 1978, replacing Abbas Ali Khalatbari in the post.[12] [13] He retained the post when a military government led by Gholam Reza Azhari was formed on 6 November 1978.[12] [14] His term ended in January 1979, and Ahmad Mirfendereski replaced him in the post.[13]

In the 1960s Afshar was among the Iranian statesmen who favored Iran's close relations with the U.S. and other Western countries in order to secure the survival of the Pahlavi dynasty.[2] He left Iran before the revolution in 1979 and died in 1999.[15]

Honors

Afshar was the recipient of Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hashem Hakimi. Fatemi's outburst. The Iranian. 9 August 2013. 13 February 2002.
  2. Roham Alvandi. The Shah's détente with Khrushchev: Iran's 1962 missile base pledge to the Soviet Union. Cold War History. 2014. 14. 3. 432. 10.1080/14682745.2014.890591. 153838957.
  3. Roham Alvandi. Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: the origins of Iranian primacy in the Persian Gulf. Diplomatic History. 2012. 36. 2. 337–372. 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01025.x.
  4. Web site: Thomas L. Hughes. Dispute Over the Shatt al-Arab Disturbs Relations Periodically. CIA. 25 July 2013. Intelligence report. 22 April 1969.
  5. Web site: Afshar-Ghassemlou, Amir-Khosrow. Harvard University. 12 May 2014. dead. 26 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140512223907/http://ted.lib.harvard.edu/ted/deliver/~iohp/Afshar-Ghassemlou,+Amir-Khosrow.03.
  6. Roham Alvandi. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi and the Bahrain Question, 1968–1970. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 2010. 37. 2. 10.1080/13530191003794723. 167. 159639635.
  7. Book: Brandon Friedman. The End of Pax Britannica in the Persian Gulf, 1968-1971. 2020. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham. 978-3-030-56182-6. 68. 10.1007/978-3-030-56182-6. 229220016.
  8. News: State Intelligence. The London Gazette. 7 August 2013. 27 November 1969.
  9. Book: John R. Hinnells. Mithraic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies. 518. 1975. Manchester. John Hinnells. Manchester University Press. 978-0-7190-0536-7.
  10. News: Libel damages for Iran's former ambassador. 26 July 2013. The Herald. 11 May 1984.
  11. News: State Intelligence. 6 August 2013. London Gazette. 31 December 1974.
  12. Web site: A chronology of the Iranian Revolution (1978-79). Derkeiler. 25 July 2013. 2 May 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032612/http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.iranian/2005-08/msg01561.html.
  13. Book: Luman Ali. British Diplomacy and the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1981. Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. 978-3-319-94406-7. Cham. 156.
  14. Book: Sepehr Zabir. The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D). London; New York. 2012. 27. Routledge. 978-1-136-81270-5.
  15. Web site: rasekhoon.net. fa. خسرو افشار قاسملو.

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