Geography is an important factor in informing Iran's foreign policy. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the newly formed Islamic Republic, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, dramatically
Darvazeh-e-Bagh-e-Melli: the main gates to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran.
The newly renovated building of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses pre-Islamic Persian architecture extensively in its facade.
President Khatami (in office: 1997–2005) played a key role in repairing Iran's foreign relations with Europe.
Ali Khamenei with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, February 2017
Iran and Israel have not maintained a formal diplomatic relationship with each other since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict has grown to large
Foreign relations of Iran
…Iraq has an embassy in Tehran, and three Consulate-Generals in Ahwaz, Kermanshah, and Mashad. Israel 1950 (Diplomatic relations severed in 1979) See Iran–Israel relations, History of the Jews in Iran, Iran–Israel proxy conflict In 1947, Iran voted against the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and recognized…
Cyrus the Great releases Jews from the Babylonian captivity to resettle and rebuild Jerusalem. Jean Fouquet, 1470.
Iranian minister Reza Saffinia arriving at the house of Israeli president Chaim Weizmann in Rehovot on Yom Ha'atzmaut, 1950.
An Iranian stamp issued in memory of Suleiman Khater, who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre against Israeli tourists in 1985
Protest in Tehran, Iran, 18 May 2018