Hamid Aboutalebi
| Hamid Aboutalebi حمید ابوطالبی |
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| Deputy Chief of Staff of the President for Political Affairs | |
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Assumed office 4 January 2015 |
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| President | Hassan Rouhani |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Ambassador of Iran to Australia | |
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In office 2 September 2003 – 7 November 2006 |
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| President |
Mohammad Khatami Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Gholamali Khoshroo |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Movahhedi |
| Ambassador of Iran to Belgium and the European Union | |
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In office 1 September 1995 – 1 September 2000 |
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| President |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Reza Bakhtiari |
| Succeeded by | Abolghassem Delfi |
| Ambassador of Iran to Italy | |
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In office 1 September 1988 – 1 September 1992 |
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| President |
Ali Khamenei Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Preceded by | Gholamali Heydari Khajepour |
| Succeeded by | Majid Hedayatzade |
| Personal details | |
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16 June 1957 Tehran, Iran |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran |
Hamid Aboutalebi (Persian: حمید ابوطالبی, born 16 June 1957) is an Iranian diplomat and ambassador. Aboutalebi was previously ambassador of Iran to Australia, the European Union, Belgium, Italy, and as political director general to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was part of Iran's UN delegation in New York City in the 1990s.
Aboutalebi obtained his Ph.D. in historical sociology from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1999, after having completed master's degrees in sociology (from Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris) and in the history of Islamic civilization and culture (from Tehran University). Aboutalebi also earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from Tehran University.
His professional publications include Basic Challenges of U.S Foreign Policy towards Iran (2009),Rocky Mountains of Nuclear Extremism (2009),Turkey: Modern Diplomacy and New Ottoman Caliphate (2009), and New Challenges of Iran Foreign Policy towards U.S. (2010). He published Anthropology of Ethics; First Volume of Philosophy of Social Ethics in 2013.
It has been claimed that Aboutalebi was one of the student radicals involved in the Iran hostage crisis, in which 52 Americans, including diplomats from the US embassy in Tehran, were held captive from 1979 to 1980.
Aboutalebi denied participation in the takeover of the US embassy, emphasising that he was brought in to translate and negotiate following the occupation. Aboutalebi was a student and member of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, comprising students from several major science and technology universities of Tehran, which occupied the U.S. embassy in Tehran.Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, a leading member of the core group who organized and led the embassy takeover, told BBC Persian that Aboutalebi's involvement was peripheral. "Calling him a hostage-taker is simply wrong", Asgharzadeh said.
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