Bakhtyari Appointed as Iran’s Ambassador to S. Korea

Proposed by foreign minister and approved by the president, Mohammad Reza Bakhtyari was appointed as Iran’s ambassador to South Korea. According to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry’s Information and Press Bureau, Bakhtyari has already served as Iran’s ambassador to Morocco and Belgium, Foreign Ministry’s Director General for American Affairs and director of the economic bureau of the Foreign Ministry’s department for European and American Affairs.