# List of ambassadors of Iran to India

The Iranian ambassador in New Delhi is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of India.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic accreditation | Diplomatic accreditation Solar Hijri calendar | Ambassador | Persian language | Observations | List of heads of state of Iran | List of presidents of India | Term end | Term end Solar Hijri calendar |
| March 1948 | 1326 | Ali Motamedi [fa] | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | | December 1, 1948 | 1327 |
| January 21, 1949 | 1327 | Mousa Nouri Esfandiari | Persian: موسی نوری اسفندیاری | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | | January 1, 1952 | 1330 |
| | | Ali-Asghar Hekmat | Persian: علی‌اصغر حکمت | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Rajendra Prasad | | |
| | | Morteza Moshfegh Kazemi [ru] | Persian: مرتضی مشفق کاظمی | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Rajendra Prasad | | |
| December 1, 1961 | 1340 | Abdolhossein Masoud Ansari [fa] | Persian: عبدالحسین مسعود انصاری | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Rajendra Prasad | March 21, 1963 | 1342 |
| March 21, 1963 | 1342 | Fereydoun Adamiyat | Persian: فریدون آدمیت | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | June 1, 1965 | 1344 |
| August 1, 1965 | 1344 | Jalal Abdoh [de] | Persian: جلال عبده | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | October 1, 1968 | 1347 |
| November 1, 1968 | 1347 | Mohammad-Reza Amirteymour Kalali | Persian: محمدرضا امیرتیمور کلالی | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Zakir Husain | September 1, 1971 | 1350 |
| 1971 | 1350 | Gholamali Vahid Mazandarani | Persian: غلامعلی وحید مازندرانی | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Varahagiri Venkata Giri | | |
| | | Mohammad Moazzami | Persian: محمد معظمی | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | | | |
| February 1, 1976 | 1354 | Gholamreza Tajbakhsh Davallou | Persian: غلامرضا تاج‌بخش دولو | | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | January 7, 1979 | 1357 |
| February 1, 1979 | 1357 | Naser Shirazi Rad | Persian: ناصر شیرازی راد | Chargé d'affaires | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | November 1, 1979 | 1358 |
| November 1, 1979 | 1358 | Abolfazael Mojtahedi | Persian: ابوالفضائل مجتهدی | | | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | August 1, 1981 | 1360 |
| August 1, 1981 | 1360 | Mohammad-Mehdi Akhoundzadeh [de] | Persian: محمدمهدی آخوندزاده | Chargé d'affaires | Mohammad Ali Rajai | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | July 1, 1982 | 1361 |
| July 1, 1982 | 1361 | Hassan Asadi Lari | Persian: حسن اسدی لاری | | Ali Khamenei | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | November 1, 1984 | 1363 |
| November 1, 1984 | 1363 | Ebrahim Behnam Dehkordi | Persian: ابراهیم بهنام دهکردی | | Ali Khamenei | Zail Singh | July 1, 1988 | 1367 |
| July 1, 1987 | 1367 | Javid Ghorbanoghlou | Persian: جاوید قربان‌اوغلو | Chargé d'affaires | Ali Khamenei | Zail Singh | June 1, 1989 | 1368 |
| June 1, 1989 | 1368 | Ebrahim Rahimpour | Persian: ابراهیم رحیم‌پور | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | November 1, 1993 | 1372 |
| November 1, 1993 | 1372 | Ali-Reza Sheikh-Attar | Persian: علیرضا شیخ عطار | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Shankar Dayal Sharma | March 1, 1998 | 1376 |
| April 1, 1998 | 1377 | Mahmoud Mousavi | Persian: میرمحمود موسوی | | Mohammad Khatami | Kocheril Raman Narayanan | December 1, 2002 | 1381 |
| January 1, 2003 | 1381 | Siavash Zargar | Persian: سیاوش زرگر یعقوبی | | Mohammad Khatami | Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam | October 1, 2007 | 1386 |
| 2007 | 1386 | Mehdi Nabizadeh | Persian: مهدی نبی‌زاده | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Pratibha Patil | November 1, 2012 | 1391 |
| December 1, 2012 | 1391 | Gholamreza Ansari [ru] | Persian: غلامرضا انصاری | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Pranab Mukherjee | March 1, 2018 | 1396 |
| April 1, 2018 | 1397 | Ali Chegeni [fa] | Persian: علی چگنی | | Hassan Rouhani | Pranab Mukherjee | 2022 | 1401 |
| October 26, 2022 | 1401 | Iraj Elahi [fa] | Persian: ایرج الهی | | Ebrahim Raisi | Droupadi Murmu | | |