Hamid Aboutalebi

Hamid Aboutalebi (Template:Lang-fa, born 16 June 1957 in Tehran, Iran)^[1] is an Iranian diplomat and ambassador. He will be Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations from 25 July 2014, succeeding Mohammad Khazaee. Aboutalebi was previously ambassador of Iran to Australia, the European Union, Belgium, Italy and also political director general to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[2]

Hamid 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. ^[3]

Aboutalebi is a member of numerous Iranian organizations, councils and committees, including:

• The Scientific Board for Foreign Policy of Center for Strategic Research (C.S.R)
• Member of the Strategic Board for Foreign Policy of C.S.R
• Director for the Asia Studies Group at Foreign Policy Department of C.S.R
• Director for the Iran's Foreign Policy Studies Group at Foreign Policy Department of C.S.R
• The Scientific Council of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia
• Dean of the Department for Scientific Research of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia
• Author and editor of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia
• The Strategic Planning Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Member of the Planning and Programming Council of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• Member of the Economic Coordination Committee of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• Member of the Policy Planning Board of the Center of Strategic Studies for the Presidential Office, (C.S.S)
• Member of Advisory Board of Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs (IRFA)

Aboutalebi's professional publications include Basic Challenges of U.S Foreign Policy towards Iran (2009),^[4] Rocky Mountains of Nuclear Extremism (2009),^[5] Turkey: Modern Diplomacy and New Ottoman Caliphate (2009),^[6] and New Challenges of Iran Foreign Policy towards U.S. (2010).^[7] Aboutalebi has also published a book on anthropology of ethics, Anthropology of Ethics; First Volume of Philosophy of Social Ethics in 2013.^[8]

Hamid Aboutalebi has been identified as one of the kidnappers of a number of American diplomats from the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.^[9][10] As a result, his appointment as ambassador to the UN has been opposed by numerous US lawmakers and diplomats, some of whom have asked the US Department of State to deny his application for a visa.^[11][12]

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