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Iranian reports: Former FM Kamal Kharazi dies of wounds sustained in April 1 strike
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Screen capture from video of Kamal Kharazi, the head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, during an interview with Al-Jazeera, February 2019. (YouTube)
A former Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, died yesterday from wounds suffered in US-Israel strikes on April 1, Iranian media reports.
Kharazi, 81, had been serving as the head of the Strategic Council for International Relations, which is part of the foreign ministry.
The veteran diplomat, “who was injured in a terrorist attack carried out by the American-Zionist enemy a few days ago, died a martyr tonight”, the Mehr and Isna agencies report on Telegram.
His wife was killed in the strike on their home in Tehran, media reported at the time.
Kharazi was Iran’s envoy at the United Nations in New York and then became foreign minister from 1997 to 2005, under reformist president Mohammad Khatami.
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