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Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey (born July 8, 1945) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2002. She is head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (the Swiss foreign minister) and was President of the Confederation in...

Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian:روح الله موسوی خمینی, pronounced [ruːhollɑːhe muːsæviːje xomejniː] ( listen))[add stress] (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which...

Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga (born 14 July 1942 in Madrid, Spain) was the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union...

Seyed Mohammad Khātamī (Persian: سید محمد خاتمی, pronounced [sejjed mohæmmæde xɒːtæmiː])[add stress] (born October 14, 1943, in Ardakan, Yazd Province) is an Iranian scholar and politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August...

Dr. Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد البرادعي‎, transliteration: Muḥammad al-Barādaʿī) (born June 17, 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the...

Mohammad Ali Hosseini (In Persian: محمد علی حسینی) is the vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran. He is the current spokesman of the Ministry and Vice Minister of parliamentary affairs.

Ali Ardashir Larijani (Persian: علی اردشیر لاریجانی; born 1958 in Najaf, Iraq) is an Iranian philosopher, politician and the chairman/speaker of the Iranian parliament. Larijani was the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from August 15, 2005 to October...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Persian: محمود احمدی نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād [mæhmuːde æhmædiːneʒɒːd] (help·info);[missing stress] born 28 October 1956) is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders...

Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی Akbar Hāshemī Rafanjānī), Hashemi Bahramani (هاشمی بهرمانی) born on February 15, 1934, is an influential Iranian politician, and in September 2007 was elected to the post of Chairman of the...

Seyyed ‘Alî Hosaynî Khâmene’î (Persian pronunciation) (help·info) (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, pronounced [ʔɒjætolɒh sejed ʔæli hosejni xɒmeneʔi]) (born 17 July 1939), also known as Ali Khamene'i, is an Iranian politician...