Mohammad Khazaee born 12 April 1953 in Kashmar

Kashmar

Kashmar is a city in and the capital of Kashmar County, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Kashmar is located near the river Sish Taraz in the western part of the province, and south of the province's capital Mashhad, in Iran, from east to Bardaskan, west to Torbat-e Heydarieh, north to...

, Iran

Iran

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) is the current Ambassador of Iran

Iran

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 to the United Nations

United Nations

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. He presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General

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 Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon

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 in July 2007. He was elected as Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly

United Nations General Assembly

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 on 14 September 2011.

Education

Khazaee has a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Guilan

University of Guilan

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. He also holds a master’s degree

Master's degree

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 in international transactions from George Mason University

George Mason University

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 in the United States

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, Mr. Khazaee has taught macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

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 and philosophy

Philosophy

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 at Tehran

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’s Allameh Tabatabai University

Allameh Tabatabai University

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.

Parliament

From 1981 to 1988, Khazaee was a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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, where he served as Rapporteur of the Economic Committee (1982-1988) and the Banking Reform Committee (1981-1982).

Government appointments

Prior to receiving his appointment as Permanent Representative, Mr. Khazaee held positions in international development

International development

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 financing between 2002 and 2007, serving as both Vice-Minister for International Affairs and President of the Organization for Economic and Technical Assistance in Iran’s Ministry of Economic Affairs. Concurrently, he served as Governor of the OPEC Fund, Vice-Chairman of that organization’s Investment Committee, Alternate Governor for the Islamic Development Bank

Islamic Development Bank

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 and a board member of the Iran-Misr (Iran-Egypt) Development Bank. From 1988 to 2002, he represented Iran at the World Bank

World Bank Group

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Statements

In June 2010, amid hostility between Israel and Iran over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program

Nuclear program of Iran

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, Khazaee declared in his hometown of Kashmar, "If the Zionist regime

Zionist entity

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 commits the slightest aggression against the Iranian soil, we will set the entire war front and Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 on fire."

External links

• The Permanent Mission of the IR Iran to the UN
• A conversation with Mohammad Khazaee, Part1, Charlie Rose Show, December 7, 2007.