List of ambassadors of Iran to United Nations Office at Vienna explained

Post:	Permanent Representative
Body:	Iran next the United Nations Office at Vienna
Native Name:	fa| نماینده دائم جمهوری اسلامی ایران در دفتر سازمان ملل متحد در وین
Insignia:	Emblem of Iran.svg
Insigniasize:	50px
Insigniacaption:	Coat of Arms of Iran
Incumbent:	Mohsen Naziri Asl
Incumbentsince:	^[1]
Inaugural:	Ali Asghar Soltanieh

The Iranian Permanent Representative next the United Nations Office at Vienna is the official representative of the Government in Tehran next the

• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

in the Vienna International Centre.

List of representatives

Diplomatic accreditation	Diplomatic accreditation Solar Hijri calendar	Permanent Representative	Persian language	Observations	List of presidents of Iran	Term end	Term end Solar Hijri calendar
	1361	Ali Asghar Soltanieh	Persian: علی‌اصغر سلطانیه	Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.	Ali Khamenei		1366
	1366	Khalil Moosavi Bioki	Persian: سید خلیل موسوی بیوکی	Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.	Ali Khamenei		1371
	1371	Mohammad Sadegh Ayatollahi	Persian: محمدصادق آیت‌اللهی	Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.^[2]	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani		1377
	1377	Ali Akbar Salehi	Persian: علی‌اکبر صالحی	Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.^[3]	Mohammad Khatami		1382
	1382	Pirooz Hosseini	Persian: پیروز حسینی	(10/01/1958) Pirooz Hosseini Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations (Vienna)	Mohammad Khatami		1384
	1383	Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh	Persian: محمدمهدی آخوندزاده		Mahmoud Ahmadinejad		1383
	1385	Ali-Asghar Soltanieh	Persian: علی‌اصغر سلطانیه	^[4]	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad		1392
	1392	Reza Najafi	Persian: رضا نجفی	Director General of the Department of International Peace and Security of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Reza Najafi,^[5]	Hassan Rouhani		1397
	1397	Kazem Gharib Abadi		In 1996 he headed the Asia and Pacific Division at the Parliament. From 2003 to 2005 he was Director of Communications and International Affairs at the IRIB World Service From 2005 to 2009 he was Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in disarmament and nuclear affairs From 2005 to 2009 he was Deputy Director General for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2010 to 2014 he was Iranian ambassador to the Netherlands and concurrently Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and International Legal Organizations based in The Hague. From 2014 to 2018 he was Deputy Secretary General of the High Council for Human Rights in International Affairs and International Judicial Cooperation. From 2014 to 2018 he was Chairman of the National Committee for the Universal Periodic Review and Chair of the Human Rights Coordinating Committee. From 2015 to 2018 he was Chief of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Nuclear Committee, and in the Supreme National Security Council. In 1996 he became Bachelor in Political Relations and in 1998 a Master in Diplomacy and International Organizations, both obtained at the College of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2017 he was graduated as a PhD in Public Law from Allameh Tabatabaei University.^[6]	Hassan Rouhani	2021	1400
	1400	Mohammad Reza Ghaebi^[7]	Persian: محمدرضا غائبی	Acting Head of Mission and Charge d’Affaires	Ebrahim Raisi	2022	1401
	1401	Mohsen Naziri Asl	Persian: محسن نذیری‌اصل		Ebrahim Raisi

48.1971°N 16.3841°W^[8]

See also

• Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
• Nuclear program of Iran
• Scholars Pavilion

Notes and References

1. https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2022/unisbio1338.html
2. https://www.wisconsinproject.org/iran-replies-to-the-risk-report-denies-it-wants-the-bomb/ Mohammad Sadegh Ayatollahi
3. https://www.zeit.de/online/2009/35/iran-atomchef-salehi Ali Akbar Salehi
4. http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/news/2006/07Feb.html Ali Asghar Soltanieh
5. http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2018/unisbio1186.html Reza Najafi
6. https://webapps.unvienna.org/web/Bluebook.nsf/agWebReportMission?OpenAgent&docid=42E2C2A53DFD03BEC125749E004DAC71 Kazem Gharib Abadi
7. https://viennaun.mfa.gov.ir/en/newsview/682919
8. https://webapps.unvienna.org/web/Bluebook.nsf/agWebReportMission?OpenAgent&docid=42E2C2A53DFD03BEC125749E004DAC71 webappa.unvienna.org