Education
1987-1991 BA in Diplomatic Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1994-1996 MA in International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences,University of Tehran
2006-2010 PhD in International Relations, University of Tehran
Diplomatic Experience
1997-2001 Counsellor, Deputy Ambassador in Iraq
2001-2003 Deputy Head of Department, Department of Persian Gulf, MFA;
2003-2006 Deputy Special Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Iraq, MFA;
2005-2006 Member of the Political-Security Committee of Nuclear Negotiating Team with EU-3;
2006-2007 Deputy Director General, Department of Persian Gulf, MFA;
2006-2007 Chief of Ad Hoc Committee on Iraq, MFA;
2007 Member of Iran’s Negotiating Team in the Trilateral Talks between Iran, Iraq and the United States;
2007-2010 Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain;
2010-2011 Director General of Persian Gulf and Middle East, MFA;
2011-2016 Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, MFA;
2016-2021 Special Assistant to the Majlis (Parliament) Speaker, Director General for International Affairs of the Parliament;
2021-Now Minister of Foreign Affairs
Academic Experience
Supervisor/Advisor /Postgraduate dissertations and thesis University of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba’i University, National Defense University, School of International Relations
Lecturer Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Iran
Lecturer School of International Relations, Tehran
Managing Editor of "Palestine Strategic Discourse Journal
Member of Editorial Board and advisor to"Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly", University of Tehran
Founding Member of "West Asia Studies Center"—an international relations think-tank, Tehran
Publications
"US Double Containment Strategy", Besat Publications, Tehran, Iran;
"Contradictory Democracy of the United States of America in New Iraq", Media Publications, Tehran, Iran;
"Inefficiency of American Greater Middle East Initiative",Institute for Political and InternationalStudies, Tehran, Iran;
"Rising of Sham (Syria), SoorehMehr Publications,Tehran, Iran;
"Syria Developments: Reasons and Outcomes, Journal of International Conference,University of Allameh Tabatabaei,Tehran, Iran;
"Baghdad-Washington Security Pact: US Anthroponomy in New Iraq", Foreign Policy Quarterly, Institute for Political and International Studies, Tehran, Iran;
"US Double Containment Policy in DAMATO Act”, Journal of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Tehran, Iran