# List of ambassadors of Iran to Saudi Arabia

The Iranian ambassador in Riyadh is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Saudi Arabia.
The head of the Iranian Interests Section in the Consulate of Switzerland in Jeddah represents the Iranian interests in Saudi Arabia.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic accreditation | Diplomatic accreditation Iranian calendars | Ambassador | Persian language | Observations | List of presidents of Iran | King of Saudi Arabia | Term end | Term end Iranian calendars |
| 1934 | 1312 | | | Till 1934 the Iranian ambassador to Egypt in Cairo was accredited in Jedda Saudi Arabia. | Reza Shah | Ibn Saud | | |
| December 15, 1929 | 1307 | Habibullah Khan Hoveida [de] | Persian: حبیب‌الله عین‌الملک | Date of Establishment: 1930 Iranian consul general in Damascus, Habibullah Khan 'Ayn al-Mulk Huwayda, Habibullah Ein-ol-Molk was Iran's ambassador to Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries who lived in Hejaz (Saudi Arabia), Lebanon and Jordan, and was once the head of the Baha'i Faith for many years. He was familiar with Laurence of Saudi Arabia and was familiar with the formation of the Saudi monarchy. | Reza Shah | Ibn Saud | 1934 | 1312 |
| 1929 | 1307 | | | Habibollah Khan Hoveida was the father of Amir Abbas Hoveida who served as Prime Minister of Iran for 13 years during the reign of Mohammad Riza Shah Pahlavi Mirza Habibullah Khan Hoveida was the representative whom Persia sent to the Hejaz on a special mission in the | Reza Shah | Ibn Saud | | |
| 1929 | 1307 | | | Mirza Habibullah Khan Al-Reza or Abdul Malik was elected as Iran's ... one of the motives of Mirza Habibullah Khan, who later used Hoveyda name for himself, | Reza Shah | Ibn Saud | | |
| 1934 | 1312 | Mohammad Ali Moghadam | Persian: محمدعلی مقدم | Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud was displeased with Persia's reluctance to recognize his government, and he reacted to it in August 1927, by asking for the transfer of the Persian consul in Jeddah, Mohammad Ali Moghadam. | Reza Shah | Ibn Saud | 1936 | 1314 |
| 1936 | 1314 | | | The Iranian ambassador to Egypt was concurrently accredited in Jedda. | Reza Shah | Ibn Saud | 1944 | 1314 |
| 1943 | 1321 | | | In 1943, a fight broke out between Iranian pilgrims en route to Makkah and local residents who objected to the Iranian caravan's morning call for prayers (Adhan), which bears witness to imam Ali being the prophet's rightful successor. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | | |
| 1943 | 1321 | | | In December 1943, an Iranian citizen, Abu Taleb Yazidi was arrested and beheaded after a local judge in Makkah passed a verdict charging him with a crime on the extremely sacred remissions of the Masjid Al Haram, where the kaaba is located. According to an Iranian diplomat, Egyptian pilgrims testified that the Iranian pilgrim became nauseous, vomited in his garb, and then supposedly attempted to throw it at the Kaaba - when, in fact, he had only lifted his garb to avoid polluting the grounds of the Masjid Al Haram. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | | |
| 1943 | 1321 | | | Despite official objections to the verdict by the Egyptian embassy representing Iran's interests in Saudi Arabia after the incident, and despite Egypt's subsequent attempts to issue a tripartite statement to resolve the misunderstanding, the local judge held up the testimony of the Egyptian pilgrims. (The decision may have been influenced by the archaic belief that Shi'is were responsible for smearing excrement on the Black Stone of the Kaaba, an act of desecration dating to the seventeenth century.) | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | | |
| 1944 | 1322 | | | 1944 to 1948 interruption of diplomatic relations. In the second incident, the Saudi religious police arrested an Iranian pilgrim (Hajji Abu Talib al-Yazdi) inside the Great Mosque in Makkah for throwing excrement at the Kaaba. He was arrested, tried, found guilty, and beheaded in accordance | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | 1948 | 1326 |
| 1948 | 1326 | | | For the third time Iranian ambassador to Egypt is acting in Saudi Arabia. | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | | |
| 1949 | 1327 | Abdol-Hossein Sadiq-Esfandiari [de] | Persian: عبدالحسین صدیق اسفندیاری | 1895-1986 Abd al-Hassein Sadig Isandiari, These were restored four years later and the first resident Iranian ambassador, Abdul Husain Siddiq Isfandiari arrived in Jeddah in 1949. Prince (later King) Faisal visited Tehran in 1932 followed by a state visit by King Saud in 1955 and by | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | 1950 | 1328 |
| 1952 | 1330 | Mozaffar Alam | Persian: مظفر اعلم | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Ibn Saud | 1955 | 1332 |
| August 15, 1954 | 1332 | Hossein Diba [de] | Persian: حسین دیبا (وزیر مختار) | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Saud of Saudi Arabia | 1956 | |
| July 7, 1954 | 1332 | Mahmoud Salahi | Persian: محمود صلاحی | Ambassador, 1939: Consulate affairs The Imperial Iranian Consul General in Hamburg, Mahmoud Salahi, was granted the exequatur on February 1, 1939, under the name of the Reich, | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Saud of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1957 | 1335 | Ziauddin Gharib | Persian: ضیاءالدین قریب | Zia al-Din Qarib | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Saud of Saudi Arabia | 1960 | 1341 |
| 1961 | 1339 | Afrasiab Navai | Persian: افراسیاب نوایی | | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Saud of Saudi Arabia | 1963 | 1341 |
| 1963 | 1341 | Ali Asemi | Persian: : علی عاصمی | Chargé d'affaires in Jeddah, From 1966 to 1968 he was Iranian ambassador to Syria | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Saud of Saudi Arabia | 1963 | |
| 1966 | 1344 | Mohammad Hossein Mashayekh Faridani | Persian: محمدحسین مشایخ فریدنی | 1963 he was ambassador in Bagdad | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Faisal of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1971 | 1349 | Muhammad Ghavam | Persian: سعید عرب | Saudi Arabia: Muhammad Ghavam, Jeddah (A). | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Faisal of Saudi Arabia | 1972 | |
| 1972 | 1350 | Ahmad Jaafar Raed [de] | Persian: جعفر رائد | In 1972 Jafar Raed, the Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, approached the Palestinian leader. The Shah also raised the matter at the Morocco Islamic summit. Arafat was reported to have been in Tehran on at least two occasions in the early | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Faisal of Saudi Arabia | April 1, 1979 | 1357 |
| February 1, 1979 | 1356 | | | Iranian Revolution | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Khalid of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1983 | 1361 | Fakhri | Persian: فخری | Riyadh's alliance with Saddam Hussein during the Iran—Iraq War of 1980—88 came about not so much because common interests had emerged as because Saudis fear of an Iranian Revolution. | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1983 | 1361 | Alaeddin Boroujerdi | Persian: علاءالدین بروجردی | Chargé d'affaires Ala'Uddin Brugerdi, Embassy of Iran 116 Medina Rd., Jeddah Ala'Uddin Brugerdi Embassy of | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | 1984 | |
| 1983 | 1361 | AbulFadl | | | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1983 | 1361 | Hussein Sadeqi [de] | Persian: حسین صادقی (دیپلمات) | Chargé d'affaires | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| July 30, 1984 | 1362 | Mojtaba Hashemi [de] | Persian: سید مجتبی هاشمی | Seyyed Mojtaba Hashemi (November 13, 1919, in Tehran, Tehran), the first commander of the Central Revolutionary Committee of Tehran, and commander of the Islamic Fadaiyan group during the Iran-Iraq war. He was assassinated in May 28, 1985, in Wahdat-e-Islami (formerly Shapur) Street, Tehran. Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh, Iranian ambassador to the IAEA. | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1987 | 1365 | Parviz Afshari | Persian: پرویز افشاری | 1987 Mecca incident, But the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Iranian Embassy in Riyadh, Parviz Afshari, complained a heavy police guard was still Aug 18, 1987 - But the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Iranian Embassy in Riyadh, Parviz Afshari, complained a heavy police guard was still stationed around his embassy premises. He also claimed that the Iranian consulate in Jidda was | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | 1988 | 1366 |
| April 26, 1988 | 1366 | | | Diplomatic relations broken Riyadh severed diplomatic relations on 26 April 1988 (MEED 6:5:88, Saudi Arabia). | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| June 5, 1988 | 1366 | | | In February 1989, Rafsanjani said that Iran and Saudi Arabia were holding indirect talks to resume relations.. Interrupting relations from 6 May 1988 to in the July 31 clashes between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi security forces in the holy city of Mecca in which hundreds of Moslems were killed | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | 1991 | 1369 |
| June 5, 1988 | 1366 | | | The Turkish embassy is waiting for approval from Riyadh to look after Iran's interests in the kingdom, following the 26 April break in diplomatic relations (MEED 6:5:88). Since the rupture, Iran has accused the kingdom of sending a spy to Iran | Ali Khamenei | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| June 5, 1988 | 1367 | | | Ayatollah Khomeini died on 3 June 1989 funeral of Rummala Comeini Saudi did not send an emissary, 5–6 June 1989 Death and state funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1992 | 1370 | Mohammad Ali Najafabadi [de] | Persian: محمدعلی هادی نجف‌آبادی | Hadi Najafabadi, an MP who later became Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia 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 from Tehran, and later Iran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the Deputy Foreign Minister's Consular and Parliamentary At the time of the Ministry of Commerce Kharazi. During his visit to Iran, President McFarlin's visit to Iran in 1365, accompanied by Hassan Rouhani and Fereydoun Verdinejad, Hadi participated in secret discussions with him. [3] His remarks in the early 1970s about Iran and Saudi Arabia's similarities to the two wings of the Islamic world were criticized. In Iran's political circles | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | |
| 1994 | 1372 | Mohammad Hosein Taromi-Rad [de] | Persian: محمدحسین طارمی | Hassan Taromi-Rad, Mohammad Hosein Taromi-rad | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | 1995 | |
| September 1, 1995 | 1373 | Mohammad Reza Nouri Shahroudi [de] | Persian: محمدرضا نوری شاهرودی | Mohammad Reza Nouri Shahrudi Hojatoleslam Mohammad-. Reza Nouri Shahroudi | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | January 1, 1998 | |
| September 13, 2000 | 1383 | Ali Asghar Khaji [de] | Persian: علی اصغر خجی | Iran's ambassador to the European Union | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | 2004 | |
| 2004 | 1384 | Hussein Sadeqi [de] | Persian: حسین صادقی (دیپلمات) | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | November 27, 2006 | |
| November 27, 2006 | 1384 | Mohammad Hosseini (diplomat) [de] | Persian: محمد حسینی | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | 2008 | |
| 2008 | 1386 | Mohammad Javad Rasouli Mahallaty [de] | Persian: محمد جواد رسولی محلاتی | Javad Rasouli 1996-2005 he was consul general in Bremen | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | July 23, 2014 | |
| August 1, 2014 | 1392 | Hussein Sadeqi [de] | | | Hassan Rouhani | Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | January 3, 2016 | 1394 |
| September 24, 2015 | 1393 | | | 2015 Mina stampede | Hassan Rouhani | Salman of Saudi Arabia | 2015 | |
| January 3, 2016 | 1394 | | | On January 2, 2016 Nimr al-Nimr was executed and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tehran was occupied and burnt the diplomatic relations between the two regimes were cut. | Hassan Rouhani | Salman of Saudi Arabia | | |
| October 25, 2017 | 1396 | | | The Iranian Interest Section will be located in Jeddah. | Hassan Rouhani | Salman of Saudi Arabia | | |
| September 6, 2023 | 1402 | Alireza Enayati | Persian: علیرضا عنایتی | The diplomatic relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia reestablished after seven years. | Ebrahim Raisi | Salman of Saudi Arabia | | |
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