Iranian National Security Appoints Ali Bagheri to New Position

Arab Sea Newspaper - Special

Arab Sea_Reports: Ali Larijani, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, issued a decision appointing Ali Bagheri Kani, the former acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs in the government of the late President Ebrahim Raisi, as Deputy for International Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council. Bagheri is considered one of the most prominent diplomatic figures associated with the nuclear file and negotiations with the West, as he previously held the responsibility of the nuclear negotiation team during the era of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and also played a pivotal role in the recent rounds of dialogue with Western powers regarding the revival of the nuclear agreement. He is the son of Mohammad Bagheri Kani, a former member of the Assembly of Experts, and the brother of Misbah al-Huda, and is married to the daughter of Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs in the ministry since September 2021, and led nuclear negotiations with Western powers to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, but efforts failed in this context. He also served as Deputy Head of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary of the Human Rights Headquarters in the authority. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran for International Affairs during the era of Saeed Jalili during the Ahmadinejad government, and Bagheri Kani also participated in nuclear negotiations from 2007 to 2013. He also headed Saeed Jalili's presidential campaign in the presidential elections held in 2013. He also has a background in teaching economics at the university, and studied at Al-Razavi University of Islamic Sciences and Imam Sadiq University in Tehran when Jalili was Deputy Head of European and American Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bagheri Kani was the Director General of Central and Northern Europe and an assistant to Saeed Jalili. Alongside Jalili, he was one of the critics of the nuclear negotiations in the government of former President Hassan Rouhani, and criticized the content of the nuclear negotiations.