List of ambassadors of Iran to the United Kingdom

Ambassador to the
United Kingdom
Coat of Arms of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Incumbent
Hamid Baeidinejad
since 5 September 2016
Style His Excellency
Residence 16 Princes Gate
Knightsbridge
London
Inaugural holder Robert Shirley
Persian Ambassador
Website Iran Embassy in the UK

This is a list of Iranian Ambassadors to the United Kingdom.[1]

  • 1608 Robert Shirley and Nakd 'Ali Beg
  • 1809 - 1810 Mirza Abu'l Hassan Khan Ilchi
  • 1839 - 1939 Mirza Hossein Khan Moghaddam (Great Britain refused to receive him and rejected his mission)
  • 1850 - 1855 Shafi' Khan (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1860 - 1861 Mirza Jafar Khan Moshir al-Dowleh
  • 1862 - 1865 Mirza Mahmud Khan Naser al-Molk (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1865 - 1867 Mirza Mohammad-Ali Khan (acting)
  • 1867 - 1872 Muhsin Khan Mo'in al-Molk (First as Chargé d'affaires then as Minister Resident and finally as Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1872 - 1889 Mirza Malkam Khan (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1889 - 1906 Mohammad-Ali Ala al-Saltaneh (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1907 - 1920 Mehdi Ala al-Saltaneh (First as Chargé d'affaires then as Minister Resident and finally as Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1921 - 1926 Davoud Meftah al-Saltaneh (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1926 - 1927 Abdul Ali Khan Sadigh-es-Saltaneh (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1927 - 1929 Hovhannes Khan Massehian (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1929 - 1930 Hassan Taqizadeh (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1931 - 1932 Ali-Qoli Massoud Ansari (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1935 - 1937 Hossein Ala' (CMG) (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1938 - 1938 Ali Soheili (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1938 - 1940 Fazlollah Nabil (acting)
  • 1940 - 1941 Mohammad Ali Moghaddam (Minister Plenipotentiary)
  • 1941 - 1947 Hassan Taqizadeh (First as Minister Plenipotentiary then as Ambassador)
  • 1947 - 1950 Mohsen Rais
  • 1950 - 1951 Ali Soheili
  • 1951 - 1952 Mohammad Hadjeb-Davallou (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)
  • 1954 - 1954 Amir Khosrow Afshar (Chargé d'affaires a.i.)
  • 1954 - 1958 Ali Soheili
  • 1958 - 1961 Hossein Ghods-Nakhai
  • 1961 - 1962 Mohsen Rais
  • 1962 - 1966 Ardeshir Zahedi
  • 1967 - 1969 Abbas Aram
  • 1969 - 1974 Amir Khosrow Afshar
  • 1975 - 1976 Mohammad-Reza Amirteymour
  • 1976 - 1979 Parviz C. Radji
  • 1979 - 1979 Houshang Mahdavi (Abdolreza Mahdavi) (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1979 - 1980 Gholam-Ali Afrouz (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1980 - 1981 Seyfollah Ehdaie (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1981 - 1982 Alireza Farrokhrouz (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1982 - 1986 Seyed Jalal Sadatian (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1986 - 1989 Mohammad-Mehdi Akhondzadeh (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1989 - 1990 Jamal Haj Esmaili (Head of Iran's interest section in London)
  • 1990 - 1992 Seyed Shamsoddin Khareghani (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1992 - 1999 Gholamreza Ansari (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 1999 - 2000 Gholamreza Ansari
  • 2000 - 2004 Morteza Sarmadi
  • 2004 - 2005 Mohammad Hossein Adeli
  • 2006 - 2010 Rasoul Movahedian
  • 2010 - 2012 Safar-Ali Eslamian Koupaei (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 2013 - 2016 Mohammad-Hassan Habibollahzadeh (Chargé d'affaires)
  • 2016 - present Hamid Baeidinejad (Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iransociety.org/officers.htm
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