Esmail Baghaei | |
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| اسماعیل بقایی | |
 Baghaei in 2025 | |
| Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran | |
| Assumed office 2 October 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Abbas Araghchi |
| President | Masoud Pezeshkian |
| Preceded by | Nasser Kanaani |
| Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Office at Geneva | |
| In office 14 August 2018 –28 September 2022 | |
| President | Hassan Rouhani Ebrahim Raisi |
| Preceded by | Mohsen Naziri Asl |
| Succeeded by | Ali Bahreyni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Esmail Baghaei Hamaneh 28 May 1975 Yazd,Iran |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran Shahid Beheshti University School of International Relations |
Esmail Baghaei Hamaneh [a] (born 28 May 1975) is an Iranian diplomat who is the 14th and current Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran since 3 October 2024. [1] He has previously served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Office in Geneva from 2018 to 2022. [2]
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He was a PhD candidate in public international law at the University of Tehran,and first began his career at the Foreign Ministry in 2001 as a legal officer at the General Directorate for International Legal Affairs. [3] He attended the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2021 as a representative of the Islamic Republic. He also served as a senior assistant to the foreign minister from 2022 to 2024.
