The ambassador of India to Iran is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Iran, housed in the Indian Embassy located at No. 8, Mohaseniyan St, Dolat Avenue, Tehran.
The embassy is headed by the Ambassador, while the consulates located in Bandar Abbas and Zahedan are headed by a Consul.
The following people have served as Ambassadors to Iran.
List of Indian Ambassadors
S. No. Name Entered office Left office 1 Seyed Ali Zaheer 26 January 1948 30 November 1950 2 Tara Chand 8 December 1951 21 September 1956 3 B. F. H. B. Tyabji 30 October 1956 29 August 1958 4 T. N. Kaul 11 September 1958 30 April 1961 5 M. R. A. Baig 4 May 1961 30 November 1964 6 A. M. Engineer 6 December 1964 6 December 1966 7 K. V. Padmanabhan 5 April 1967 5 April 1969 8 M. A. Rahman 16 April 1969 30 December 1971 9 R. D. Sathe 4 April 1972 13 July 1976 10 K. R. P. Singh 3 September 1976 22 April 1978 11 V. K. Ahuja 11 June 1978 20 November 1979 12 A. M. Khaleeli 27 April 1980 16 August 1984 13 A. B. Gokhale 25 August 1984 8 March 1987 14 R. C. Arora 5 May 1987 4 August 1990 15 M. H. Ansari 13 October 1990 3 January 1993 16 S. K. Arora 25 January 1993 4 July 1994 17 Siddharth Singh 25 July 1994 13 April 1997 18 R. S. Rathore 5 May 1997 14 September 2000 19 Paripuran Singh Haer 11 October 2000 30 August 2003 20 K. C. Singh 29 September 2003 27 November 2005 21 Manbir Singh 30 November 2005 2 March 2009 22 Sanjay Singh 12 March 2009 10 March 2011 23 D. P. Srivastava 28 August 2011 31 July 2015 24 Saurabh Kumar 25 August 2015 7 January 2019 25 Gaddam Dharmendra 23 February 2019 5 May 2023 26 Rudra Gaurav Shresth 13 May 2023 Incumbent
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