# List of ambassadors of Iran to the United Arab Emirates

The Iranian ambassador in Abu Dhabi is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of the United Arab Emirates.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Persian language | Observations | List of presidents of Iran | List of prime ministers of the United Arab Emirates | Term end |
| January 18, 1973 | Manuchehr Behnam | Persian: منوچهر بهنام | Ambassador Accredited Iran's first Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Manuchehr Behnam (ARR 72/607), presented his credentials | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | |
| 1977 | Ebrahim Teimuri | Persian: ابراهیم تیموری | (1924 1981) was a diplomat and senior civil servant. He got his Doctorate in Political Science and Public administration theory from a Swiss University. In 1949 he joined the Records Department of Identification of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran) and became member of the Hajj Supervisory Board which went to Saudi Arabia with the Hajjis (Pilgrims). In 1950 he was employed at the library. In 1951 he worked in the department of personal and Budget. In 1953 he was attached to the legation in Bern. In 1955 he became third secretary at Bern. In 1956 he became second secretary in Tel Aviv. Ebrahim Teimuri Execution: Shooting; March 21, 1981; Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | |
| December 1, 1979 | Reza Ridha Esmail Hamad Borqai, Hojjat ol-Eslam | | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | July 1, 1988 |
| January 1, 1985 | Mostafa Haeri Fumani [fa], Hojjat ol-Eslam | Persian: مصطفی فومنی حائری | Mostafa Haeri Fumani, Mostafa Haeri Fomani (*1951 in Tehran) was the representative of the people of Fuman, Iran in the first term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. On November 1, 1988 he became head of the Department Persian Gulf Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran). In the government of Hassan Rouhani, he was appointed senior assistant secretary of state for oversight. Also, Mustafa Haeri Fomeni is the head of the Development Council of Guilan Province and the head of the Great Qur'an's Nursing Authority. | Ali Khamenei | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | November 1, 1988 |
| 1986 | Hassan Aminian | | | Ali Khamenei | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | |
| September 1, 1989 | Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi | Persian: محمدعلی هادی نجف‌آبادی | Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi is an Iranian cleric and politician. During his stay in Ayatollah Khomeini's residence in Paris, he was translating his speeches into Arabic, and after the revolution he was the representative of the first and second sessions of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, and later Iranina ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Iranina ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, and the Deputy Foreign Minister's Consular and Parliamentary at the time of the Ministry of Commerce Kharazi. | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | October 1, 1989 |
| April 1, 1992 | Hasan Amimian Hojjat ol-Eslam | | Hojjat ol-Eslam Hasan Aminian, Iranian ambassador to Yemen | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | August 1, 1992 |
| April 1, 1992 | Hussein Sadeqi [de] | Persian: حسین صادقی (دیپلمات) | Hossein Kamal Sadeqi was Iranian ambassador to Kuwait and Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | February 1, 1998 |
| December 1, 1997 | Mohammad Arab | Persian: محمد عرب (دیپلمات | Consul General Dubai | Mohammad Khatami | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | January 1, 1998 |
| September 1, 1989 | Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi | Persian: محمدعلی هادی نجف‌آبادی | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | April 1, 1991 |
| 2007 | Hamid-Reza Assefi | Persian: حمیدرضا آصفی | He stressed the need for Tehran and Abu Dhabi to endorse the required agreements to support the two countries' labor force. | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 2010 |
| June 6, 2010 | Mehdi Agha Jafari | Persian: مهدی آقاجعفری | chargé d'affaires Jun 6, 2010: Iranian ambassador to Bahrain | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | June 6, 2010 |
| 2012 | Mohammad Reza Fayaz | Persian: محمدرضا فیاض | The trade between Iran and the United Arab Emirates reached $25 billion in 2005. Iran's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, has returned to Tehran, after the emirate called for his ambassador to Tehran. The ISNA news agency reported that the Iranian ambassador to Tehran had returned to Iran by the decision of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. ISNA says 7 officers will remain in Abu Dhabi and 8 in the Consulate General of Dubai. Saudi Arabia and several other countries have cut their ties with Iran after the 2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran. | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | January 1, 2016 |
| 2016 | Mohammad Baratian | Persian: محمد براتیان | chargé d'affaires | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 2020 |
| 2020 | Seyed Mohammad Hosseini | Persian: سید محمد حسینی | chargé d'affaires | Hassan Rouhani | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 2022 |
| 2022 | Hossein Heidari | Persian: حسین حیدری | chargé d'affaires | Ebrahim Raisi | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 2023 |
| June 15, 2023 | Reza Ameri | Persian: رضا عامری | Appointing new ambassador to UAE after eight years | Ebrahim Raisi | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | |
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