Manouchehr Mottaki
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| Manouchehr Mottaki | |
 Manouchehr Mottaki at the 2008 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland |
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| In office 24 August 2005 – present |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
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| Preceded by | Kamal Kharazi |
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| Born | May 12, 1953 Bandar Gaz, Iran |
| Political party | Islamic Society of Engineers |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
Manouchehr Mottaki (Persian: منوچهر متکی , born 12 May 1953 in Bandar Gaz) is the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of Ali Larijani, the right-conservative candidate.
His father was a respected man who was friends with the Mayor of Bandar-e-gaz, who was generally wealthy and owned his own farm with servants and workers.[citation needed][1] After the revolution, he was elected by the people of his home town and the neighboring cities as the first parliament representative and assigned by other representatives as the head of the national security and foreign policy committee due to his politic and diplomatic talents. during his years in Majlis and effective collaboration with the foreign ministry, he was employed by the ministry after parliament.He already served as member of parliament in the first Majlis, head of seventh political bureau of Foreign Ministry (1984), Iran's ambassador to Turkey (1985), Foreign Ministry's secretary general for West European affairs (1989), deputy foreign minister for international affairs (1989) and deputy foreign minister for legal, consular and parliamentary affairs (1992).He has also been Iran's ambassador to Japan (1994), advisor to foreign minister (1999), deputy head of Culture and Islamic Communications Organization (2001) and Head of foreign relations committee of 7th Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. he then developed within the ministry during 24 years of continuous presence in different positions.[2] Khomeni appointed him as Ambassador To Japan and in 1985 was appointed to Ambassador to Turkey and head of The Iranian Embassy in Ankara. However in 1994, Rafsanjani revoked him of the title after hearing numerous complaints from Iranian citizens claiming he was refusing to give Exit Visa's to women who had fiannces in The United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. [3]
He worked in many positions in the Majlis until Ahmadinejad appointed him as Foreign Minister.
Mottaki holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Tehran and a bachelor's degree from Bangalore University in India.[4]
Mottaki quotations: “Referring the case to the Security Council would be a lose-lose game, and we would prefer that this game does not happen. We see a win-win situation, that is where the EU and international community have confidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran reaches its legitimate right.” “The Islamic Republic pays great cost to control and prevent transfer of narcotics to West.” “We do not accept global nuclear 'apartheid' and scientific 'apartheid'.” “All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.” “We should try to cool down the situation. We do not support any violence.” “Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned.” “The time for using language of threats is over, it's time for negotiation. We express our readiness for negotiations based on justice and a comprehensive compromise. We want to peacefully solve the problem.” “Nuclear weapons are not in Iran's defense doctrine.” “The issue is quite simple. We would like to enjoy our membership as well as the other members of the [Nuclear] Nonproliferation Treaty. The country has followed the rules and regulations of the [International Atomic Energy Agency] and wants to keep its rights.” [5]
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- ^ what is the reference to this comment!unreliable! his father was an ordinary farmer that still now only a 600 m house in his hometown is his only heritage to his children
- ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050814-irna03.htm
- ^ what is the reference to this comment!unreliable
- ^ Mottaki's biography on the official Iranian Presidential website
- ^ http://thinkexist.com/quotes/manouchehr_mottaki/
[edit] External links
- Manouchehr Mottaki, "How Can Anybody Be Persian?" Le Monde, 25 October 2007
- SPIEGEL audacious INTERVIEW with Iran's Foreign Minister "We Warned the United States"
