Background
Kharazi was born in Tehran in 1944.
Kharazi was born in Tehran in 1944.
He got his bachelor of science degree in Arabic language and literature, and after receiving his master"s degree in education at the University of Tehran, he spent a year (1975–1976) as teaching fellow at the University of Houston, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy.
He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki who was appointed by the next President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In industrial psychology. Kharazi has been a Professor of Management and Educational Psychology at Tehran University since 1983.
Kharazi has held a number of governmental, diplomatic and academic posts and headed Iranian delegations at numerous international conferences, most importantly at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
Foreign several years Kharazi presented the official Iranian position on television and at university campuses in the United States and Europe, and has written extensively on foreign policy issues. He had extensive experience in guiding the media during the early days of Iran"s Iranian Revolution.
From July 1980 to September 1989, he was the President of the Islamic Republic News Agency. During the first months after the Iranian Revolution, Kharazi served as the Vice President of Iranian National Television (March to August 1979) for the new Islamic state.
He then served as the Vice Minister for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (from August 1979 to March 1980) and as the Managing Director of the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (from August 1979 to July 1981).
Previously, he represented Iran at the United Nations from 1989 to 1997. He has written or translated a number of textbooks and articles on education and management.
Kharazi was a founding member of the Islamic Research Institute in London. On 18 September 1980, the Iran–Iraq War broke out, and Kharazi served as a member of the Supreme Defense Council of Iran and headed the War Information Headquarters and served as a military spokesman for most of the war (from September 1980 to September 1988).