# List of ambassadors of Iran to Spain

The Iranian ambassador in Madrid is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Spain.
The Persian mission in Madrid, was founded in September 1916 by Mirza Esmail Khan Dabirolmolk Farzaneh who until August 1919 was Persian Plenipotentiary Minister.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic accreditation | Diplomatic accreditation Solar Hijri calendar | Ambassador | Persian language | Observations | List of presidents of Iran | List of prime ministers of Spain | Term end | Term end Solar Hijri calendar |
| March 15, 1917 | 1295 | Esmail Khan Dabirolmolk Farzaneh | Persian: اسماعیل دبیرالممالک (اسماعیل فرزانه) | Mirza Esmail Khan Dabirolmolk Farzaneh; Kan de Farzaneh was the Father of Fereidoun Farzaneh and was married to Fatemeh Sheikh | Ahmad Shah Qajar | Alfonso XIII of Spain | August 1, 1919 | 1298 |
| September 1, 1919 | 1297 | Hossein Ala' | Persian: حسین علاء | | Ahmad Shah Qajar | Alfonso XIII of Spain | March 21, 1921 | 1300 |
| July 1, 1921 | 1300 | Abdolali Khan Sadri Sadiq Alsaltaneh | Persian: عبدالعلی صدیق‌السلطنه | with residence in Paris, The Iranian ambassador to France was accredited in Madrid. during that time the embassy was closed due to budget savings and Abdolali Khan Sadri Sadiq alsaltaneh, Iranian ambassador to France, was accredited to Spain. The Embassy of Iran in Madrid was reopened in May 1954. | Ahmad Shah Qajar | Alfonso XIII of Spain | February 1, 1922 | 1301 |
| June 1, 1939 | 1317 | Anoushirvan Sepahbodi | | with residence in Paris | Reza Shah | Francisco Franco | | |
| May 1, 1954 | 1333 | Yadollah Adzadi | Persian: یدالله عضدی | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Francisco Franco | June 1, 1958 | 1336 |
| September 1, 1958 | 1336 | | | The diplomatic rank of the delegation was risen to that of an Embassy. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Francisco Franco | | |
| September 1, 1958 | 1336 | Abraham Zand | Persian: ابراهیم زند | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Francisco Franco | October 1, 1962 | 1341 |
| October 1, 1962 | 1341 | Mohammad Goodarzi | Persian: محمد گودرزی | Abdel- Mohammad Goodarzi Mohammad Goudarzi | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Francisco Franco | December 1, 1966 | 1345 |
| January 1, 1967 | 1345 | Mohsen Merat Esfandiari | Persian: محسن مرآت اسفندیاری | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Francisco Franco | March 21, 1967 | |
| August 1, 1968 | 1346 | Djamchid Gharib | Persian: جمشید قریب | Jamshid Gharib | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Francisco Franco | September 1, 1976 | 1350 |
| September 1, 1976 | 1350 | Fereydoun Djam | Persian: فریدون جم | Mariscal Fereydoun Jam | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Adolfo Suárez | August 1, 1977 | |
| September 1, 1977 | 1350 | Manouchehr Azima | Persian: منوچهر عظیما | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Adolfo Suárez | 1979 | 1357 |
| 1979 | 1357 | Ghahraman | Persian: قهرمان قهرمانی | Chargé d'affaires Dr. Ghahraman was born in 1931 in Shamsi studied economics and politics first at Farhad-e-Farhad University and later joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Canada and later in Moscow as the first secretary of the embassy and at the moment the consulate of the Iranian Embassy in Spain | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Adolfo Suárez | 1980 | 1358 |
| July 1, 1979 | 1357 | Roknedine Ashtiani | Persian: رکن‌الدین آشتیانی | Chargé d'affaires | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Adolfo Suárez | September 1, 1979 | |
| July 1, 1979 | 1357 | Nasser Sadeghi | Persian: ناصر صادقی | Chargé d'affaires | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Adolfo Suárez | September 1, 1979 | |
| July 1, 1981 | 1360 | Ali Asghar Behnam | Persian: علی‌اصغر بهنام | Chargé d'affaires | Abolhassan Banisadr | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo | January 1, 1982 | 1360 |
| January 1, 1982 | 1360 | Mehdi Akrami | | | Ali Khamenei | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo | June 1, 1982 | |
| June 1, 1982 | 1361 | Sanaei Farrokhi | Persian: مهدی اکرمی | Ambassador | Ali Khamenei | Felipe González | January 1, 1986 | 1365 |
| February 1, 1987 | 1364 | Hadi Soleimanpour [de] | Persian: هادی سلیمان‌پور | | Ali Khamenei | Felipe González | June 1, 1989 | 1368 |
| July 1, 1989 | 1367 | Abdollah Zifan | Persian: عبدالله ذیفن | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Felipe González | July 1, 1995 | |
| July 1, 1995 | 1374 | Bahram Ghasemi | Persian: بهرام قاسمی | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | José María Aznar | November 1, 1998 | |
| December 1, 1998 | 1376 | Seyyed Hassan Shafti | Persian: سید حسن شفتی | | Mohammad Khatami | José María Aznar | July 1, 2003 | |
| June 22, 2003 | 1381 | Morteza Alviri | Persian: مرتضی الویری | | Mohammad Khatami | José María Aznar | July 1, 2006 | |
| June 22, 2006 | 1384 | Seyyed Davoud Salehi | Persian: سید داوود محسنی صالحی منفرد | Seyyed Davood Mohseni Salehi Monfared | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | March 21, 2009 | |
| April 1, 2010 | 1388 | Morteza Saffari-Natanzi | Persian: مرتضی صفاری نطنزی | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | March 21, 2014 | 1392 |
| April 11, 2014 | 1392 | Mohammad Hassan Fadaifard | Persian: محمدحسن فدایی‌فرد | Mohammad Hassan Fadaifard | Hassan Rouhani | Mariano Rajoy | November 1, 2013 | |
| February 13, 2019 | 1397 | Hassan Ghashghavi | Persian: حسن قشقاوی | | Hassan Rouhani | Pedro Sánchez (politician) | 2023 | 1402 |
| April 24, 2023 | 1402 | Reza Zabib | Persian: رضا زبیب | | Ebrahim Raisi | Pedro Sánchez (politician) | | |
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