Former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi has been gravely wounded, and his wife killed, in a targeted United States-Israeli strike on their Tehran home. As head of Iran’s foreign affairs council, Kharazi has been an influential figure in guiding his country’s policy. He advised Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was assassinated on February 28th when the US-Israel war on Iran began. Kharazi was recently involved in Pakistani efforts to arrange a meeting between senior Iranian officials and US vice-president JD Vance. After Iran’s 1979 revolution, Kharazi held media, academic, governmental and diplomatic positions, and chaired Iranian delegations at international conferences.

Source: The Irish Times April 03, 2026 08:34 UTC