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Revision as of 23:31, 29 August 2007 by Xerxesisis (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Dr. Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Kharazi is an Iranian career diplomat who has served twice as Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister. He is Iran's former ambassador to the UN from 1989 to 1995, and to France from 2002 to 2005. Kharazi has also worked as senior adviser to Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, as well as to President Mohammad Khatami, who served from 1997-2005 as Iran's reformist leader. In addition Kharazi was chairman of the 1997 Tehran OIC Summit. He is currently on leave of absence due to his conflicting political viewpoint with the present Iranian administration and is former President Khatami's adviser. He is a member of the board of several Iranian cultural, educational and research centers: Tehran University, the Iranian Heritage Organization, the Iranian National Library, among many others. He was also a key figure in Iran’s two-year negotiations with the EU and past advocate of “normalisation” with the United States,