Iranian politician and diplomat, age 62 Sayyid Abbas Araghchi has served as Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister since August 2024.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of Iran, landed in India Thursday morning. India’s counterattacks on terror camps in ‘Operation Sindoor’ and the Pahalgam terror incident have heightened tensions between Pakistan and India, which coincide with Araghchi’s travel to India.
A few days ago, Araghchi visited Pakistan and met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other high-ranking officials.
Who is Sayyid Abbas Araghchi, Iran Foreign Minister, biography, age, family, wife, children, religion and education
Iran has meanwhile raised objections over comments made by former army officer and television personality Gaurav Arya against Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi who Gaurav referred to as a pig in a now viral video.
After the Iran embassy’s objection, the Indian Embassy in Iran clarified that Gaurav Arya is a private citizen and that his statement has no connection with India’s official position.
Major Gaurav Arya, an Indian
government official, has used
deeply offensive language towards the Iranian Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, referring to him as the “son of a pig” in a recent broadcast.The language used has been deemed unacceptable in diplomatic protocols. pic.twitter.com/g06YUIdlTO
— Julia Kendrick (@JuKrick) May 10, 2025
62-year-old Abbas Araghchi was born in Isfahan on December 5, 1962, into a well-known Muslim family of Persian carpet merchants. The majority of his three brothers and three sisters work in trade and business. His grandfather dealt in carpets.
One of his two older brothers is a member of the Exporters Union’s Board of Directors, and the other is a member of the Sellers Union. Both brothers are in important positions. Following changes in the foreign exchange market, his nephew Seyed Ahmad Araghchi, who was the Central Bank of Iran’s Deputy Governor for Foreign Exchange Affairs from 2017 to 2018, was fired and taken into custody by the judiciary. Araghchi has two sons and one daughter from his marriage to his first wife Bahareh Abdollahi who he went onto divorce.
Araghchi’s ex-wife, Bahareh Abdollahi, is the daughter of a prominent businessman associated with the hardline Islamic Coalition Party (Motalefeh).
His second wife, Arezu Ahmadvand married the foreign minister over six years ago after his previous marriage ended. Araghchi and his wife, Arezu who is a housewife have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter and none of the foreign minister’s family members maintain a social media presence.
The School of International Relations, which is connected to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is where Abbas Araghchi obtained his Bachelor of International Relations degree. After that, he graduated with a master’s degree in political science from the Central Tehran branch of Islamic Azad University. The University of Kent also awarded Araghchi a Ph.D. in Political Thought.
Abbas Araghchi career
In 1989, Abbas Araghchi joined Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the chargé d’affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Permanent Mission to the Organization of Islamic Conference, which was headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the early 1990s.
Araghchi was the Director General of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) before being appointed Ambassador. He served as the head of the School of International Relations from 2004 to 2005.
📹VIDEO : India's defence advisor, retired Major Gaurav Arya calls Iran's Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi a “SON OF a PIG” on live TV
This is while FM Araqchi is in New Delhi.
The Indian Embassy in Iran has disowned Arya's views on the spot. The Indian govt has… pic.twitter.com/XtBhogHq7h
— Vaishnavi (@vaishu_z) May 10, 2025
From 2017 to 2021, he was the foreign ministry’s political deputy. Prior to this, he served as the Foreign Ministry’s Deputy for Asia-Pacific, Commonwealth Affairs, and Legal and International Affairs. In Hassan Rouhani’s administration, he was Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator in negotiations with the P5+1.
Following a vote of confidence by the Islamic Consultative Assembly on August 21, 2024, Araghchi was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs after being nominated as President Masoud Pezeshkian’s foreign minister on August 11.
In an interview conducted in December, he predicted that “2025 will be an important year regarding Iran’s nuclear issue.” This comes in response to Trump’s impending inauguration as the next US president, discussions about fresh economic penalties, and the Iranian rial’s decline to 820,500 to the US dollar.
Araghchi made history in January 2025 by being the first Iranian foreign minister to travel to Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in 2021 and the first since 2017.