Anoushirvan Sepahbodi Explained

Anoushirvan Sepahbodi
Native Name:Persian: انوشیروان سپهبدی
Office:Iranian ambassador to Switzerland
Term Start:1929
Term End:1931
Predecessor:Abolhassan Foroughi
Successor:Mostafaqili Kamal Hedayat
Office2:Iranian ambassador to Italy
Term Start2:January 1934
Term End2:June 1936
Predecessor2:Mohammad Ebrahim Ghaffari
Successor2:Mahmoud Djam
Office4:Iranian ambassador to Russia
Term Start4:June 1936
Term End4:April 1938
Predecessor4:Hassan Arfa
Successor4:Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei
Office5:Iranian ambassador to France
Term Start5:julie 1938
Term End5:June 1939
Predecessor5:Abolqasem Najm
Successor5:Abdol Hossein Sardari
Office6:Iranian ambassador to Spain
Term Start6:June 1939
Term End6:June 1939 to 1940
Successor6:1957: Yadollah Azadi
Office7:Iranian ambassador to Turkey
Term Start7:1941
Term End7:1944
Predecessor7:Bagher Kazemi
Successor7:Ali Gholi Ardalan
Office8:Iranian foreign minister
Term Start8:6 June 1945
Term End8:30 October 1945
Predecessor8:Nasrollah Entezam
Successor8:Abolqasem Najm
Primeminister8:Mohsen Sadr
Office9:Iranian foreign minister
Term Start9:30 October 1945 
Term End9:28 January 1946
Predecessor9:Nasrollah Entezam
Successor9:Abolqasem Najm
Primeminister9:Ebrahim Hakimi
Office10:Iranian ambassador to Egypt
Term Start10:1954
Term End10:1959
Predecessor10:Massoud Moazed
Successor10:Jamshid Gharib
Office11:Iranian ambassador to the Holy See
Term Start11:1962
Term End11:1966
Predecessor11:Mohamed Saed
Successor11:Hossein Ghods Nakhai
Birth Date:1 January 1888
Nationality:Iranian
Alma Mater:Mashir al-Dawlah
Father:Mohammad Esmaeil

Anoushirvan Sepahbodi (Persian: انوشیروان سپهبدی was an Iranian foreign minister and diplomat.

Career

In 1907 he joined the Foreign Service.In 1910 he became Vice Consul in Vladikavkaz.In 1926 he was chief of the protocol.He was deputy head of the Persian mission next the Sublime Porte in the Ottoman Empire, until he was appointed second deputy chairman of the Consulate General in Tbilisi.From 1929 to 1931 he was minister in Bern and was Permanent Representative of the Iranian Government to the League of Nations in Geneva.From July 1933, he served three months as Secretary of State at the Foreign Ministry in Tehran.From the beginning of 1934 he was ambassador to Rome and was simultaneously accredited to the governments in Vienna, Prague and Budapest.[1] From December 19, 1933 to January 4, 1935, he negotiated a British-Persian agreement on arms trafficking in Iran and the Persian Gulf.[2] From June 1936 to April 1938 he was minister in Moscow.

In July 1938 Anoushirvan Sepahbodi became minister in Paris. In 1939, French satirical magazines like Le Canard enchaîné had presented the qualities of a Persian cat as that of Reza Shah.Pierre Dac could not hope for more beautiful publicity, even if he never imagined the scandal that an article of could declencehr.Because the "French satirical newspapers", especially the weekly he runs, made fun of Reza Shah, diplomatic relations were interrupted. A delegation under the direction of General Maxime Weygand had to apologize to Reza Shah. Anoushirvan Sepahbodi was recalled from Paris and in June 1939 accredited to Francisco Franco in Madrid.[3]

From 1941 to 1945 he was ambassador in Ankara. From October 29, 1945 to early 1946, he served as Foreign Minister in the governments of Ebrahim Hakimi and Mohsen Sadr.In February 1946, he became Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Ahmad Qavām.In September 1946 he was sent to the Paris Peace Conference.In August 1947 he was appointed Advisor to the Government Cabinet.From May 1948 he also advised the Cabinet of Ahmad Qavām.In 1949 he replaced Hakim al-Malik from as royal master of ceremonies, who had been appointed Minister of the Interior.In 1950, as part of the reforms that led to the introduction of the Senate, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed him to his ministre plénipotentiaire in Tehran, a position he held until October 1953.From 1954 to 1959 he was ambassador to Cairo.From 1962 to 1966 he was ambassador to the Holy See.In 1966 he was retired after 60 years of service.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Malcolm Yapp, Paul Preston, Michael Patridge, British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the foreign office confidential print. From 1940 through 1945. Near and the Middle-East. Percia and Afghanistan, January 1940–December 1941, 1997, S. 68S. 68
  2. https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100035998854.0x00001c Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention
  3. Pierre Dac ne pouvait espérer plus belle publicité, mêm s'il n'a jamais imaginé le scandale qu'un article de L'Os à Moelle pourrait d´clencehr.Parce que les « journaux satiriques français », en particulier l'hebdomadaire qu'il dirige, se sont moqués de Reza Shah, le maître de l'Iran, les relations diplomatiques se trouvent officiellement interrompues entre Téhéran et Paris.Et pourtant, despuis la fin de  la Première Guerre mondiale, la France était pour les Inraiens un modèle pour l#éducation secondaire.L'editorial dur Roi des Loufoques devient ainsin particulièrement d'actualité.,, https://books.google.com/books?id=PHfPCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Pierre+Dac+ne+pouvait++L%27Os+%C3%A0+Moelle+moqu%C3%A9s+de+Reza+Shah&pg=PA449
  4. Malcolm Yapp, Paul Preston, Michael Patridge, British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the foreign office confidential print. From 1940 through 1945. Near and the Middle-East. Percia and Afghanistan, January 1940–December 1941, 1997, S. 68S. 68