The Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs () is an Iranian Government official whose primary responsibility is to serve as the spokesperson for Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
History Until 2011, responsibility for media relations was one of the duties of an independent department of the ministry, the General Directorate of Information and Press, but there was no established position in the ministry for spokespersons, and the spokesperson was appointed as an adviser to the minister or a special assistant to the minister. In September 2011, the responsibility of the spokesperson was defined and the legal status of the head of the Center for Public Diplomacy and Media of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was appointed as the spokesperson.
List of spokespeople TenureSpokespersonMinisterSupreme LeaderPresident1982 – 1997Morteza SarmadiAli-Akbar VelayatiRuhollah Khomeini, Ali KhameneiAli Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani1992 – 16 November 1998Mahmoud MohammadiAli KhameneiKamal KharaziAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami16 November 1998 – 10 September 2006Hamid-Reza AssefiManouchehr MottakiMahmoud Ahmadinejad10 September 2006 – 21 July 2008Mohammad Ali Hosseini21 July 2008 – 12 October 2009Hassan Ghashghavi12 October 2009 – 11 May 2013Ramin MehmanparastAli-Akbar Salehi11 May 2013 – 30 August 2013Abbas Araghchi (Acting)1 September 2013 – 8 November 2015Marzieh AfkhamMohammad Javad ZarifHassan Rouhani8 November 2015 – 19 June 2016Hossein Jaberi-Ansari19 June 2016 – 12 April 2019Bahram Ghasemi12 April 2019 – 16 August 2020Abbas Mousavi16 August 2020 – 27 June 2022Saeed KhatibzadehMohammad Javad Zarif, Hossein Amir-AbdollahianHassan Rouhani, Ebrahim Raisi27 June 2022 – 2 October 2024Nasser KanaaniHossein Amir-AbdollahianEbrahim Raisi2 October 2024 – PresentEsmail BaghaeiAbbas AraghchiAli Khamenei, Mojtaba KhameneiMasoud Pezeshkian
See also Spokesperson of the Government of Iran
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