28 Mar 2024
Saturday 31 December 2016 - 14:41
Story Code : 245051

New amb. to Damascus appointed

MNA Foreign Minister Zarif has sought President Rouhanis consent in appointing Irans new ambassador to Syria.

Javad Torkabadi is the new ambassador to serve in Damscus and will have the official consent by Mr. Rouhani. The empty position of the ambassador was hotly debated by the Principlists in the Parliament especially when a critical situation necessitated a more resolute Iranian embassy in Damascus. Mr. Zarifs appointment tries to address such concerns.

Torkabadi served as Irans ambassador to Sudan (2010-14); he has also been Irans ambassador to Bahrain and Nigeria, and was for a time Irans charg d'affaires in Kuwait. Back in Foreign Ministry, Torkabadi chaired the First Office of North and West Africa.

Irans embassy in Damascus had been run by a charg d'affaires after Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani left the positionwho had begun service as part of a 5-year mission that ended in October 2016.
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