Seyed Kamal Kharazi is an Iranian politician and diplomat who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs fromAugust 1997 toAugust 2005 as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami serving for eight years. He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki who was appointed by the next President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Kharazi was born in Tehran in 1944. He got his bachelor of science degree in Arabic language and literature, and after receiving his masters degree in education at the University of Tehran, he spent a year as teaching fellow at the University of Houston, where he received a PhD. in industrial psychology.
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