‘Comprehensive, impactful’ diplomacy tops Araqchi’s agenda
Abbas Araqchi was introduced to Parliament on Sunday as the nominee for Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Masoud Pezeshkian, with “comprehensive, active, and impactful” diplomacy being as his core program.
The nominee outlined his plans during a Monday morning session of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
A “comprehensive, active, and impactful” diplomacy with a balanced and functional approach was announced as the cornerstone of Araqchi’s agenda.
His agenda calls for dignified and pragmatic engagement with Europe, preventing efforts to build a consensus on portraying Iran as a security concern again at the UN Security Council, and honorably lifting sanctions through “purposeful and unprotracted” negotiations.
These items define Araqchi’s strategy for directing Iran’s foreign policy apparatus.
Araqchi joined the Iranian Foreign Ministry in 1989 and served as chargé d’affaires at the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Organization of Islamic Conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the early 1990s.
He also served as ambassador to Finland from 1999 to 2003, and to Japan from 2007 to 2011.
The senior diplomat worked as the former political deputy at the Foreign Ministry from 2017 to 2021, also serving as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in talks with the P5+1 during former president Hassan Rouhani’s administration.