Member state
Iran at the United Nations
- Admitted
- 1945-10-24
- ISO 3166-1
- IR / IRN
- Charter signed
- 1945-06-26
- Charter ratified
- 1945-10-16
A founding Member State: one of the fifty-one that signed the Charter at San Francisco in 1945.
International organisations
Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| United Nations | 1945-10-24 |
Service on principal organs
Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.
Economic and Social Council
2021 2020 2019 2003 2002 2001 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1968 1967 1966 1952 1951 1950
Security Council
Permanent representatives
12 recorded. Full list
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Amir Saeid Iravani | 2022-09 | in office / not recorded |
| Majid Takht-Ravanchi | 2019 | 2022 |
| Mohammad Khazaee | 2007-07-25 | 2014-03-09 |
| Mohammad Javad Zarif | 2002-08-05 | 2007-07-25 |
| Sadegh Kharazi | 1997-08-30 | 2002-08-05 |
| Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian | 1997 | 2002 |
| Kamal Kharazi | 1989-04-12 | 1997-08-30 |
| Iranian scholar of Islamic studies | 1987 | 1989 |
| Mohammad Nabavi | 1980 | 1989 |
| Kazem Rajavi | 1979 | 1980 |
| Fereydoon Hoveyda | 1971 | 1979 |
| Nasrollah Entezam | 1945-03-12 | 1962-10-01 |
Permanent mission
- Mission
- Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations
- Address
- Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10017
- National holiday
- 11 February
- Accredited diplomats
- 14
Accredited diplomats
- Mr. Amir Saeid Jalil Iravani Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Ms. Zahra Ershadi Ambassador / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Mr. Ali Hajilari First Counsellor
- Mr. Heidar Ali Balouji First Counsellor
- Mr. Ali Hajjafari First Counsellor
- Mr. Sattar Ahmadi First Counsellor
- Mr. Javad Momeni First Counsellor
- Mr. Mohammad Ghorbanpour Najafabadi Third Counsellor
- Mr. Hamid Asadi Third Counsellor
- Mr. Hossein Zebardast First Secretary / Accountant
- Mr. Mojtaba Babaei Second Secretary
- Mr. Payman Ghadirkhomi Second Secretary
- Mrs. Fatemeh Arab Bafrani Second Secretary
- Mr. Vahid Ghelich Third Secretary
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 1976 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult literacy rate | 88.9168 | 2023 | |
| CO2 emissions per capita | 9.05329 | 2024 | |
| GDP | 3.62682e+11 | 2025 | |
| GNI per capita | 4,650 | 2025 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 77.854 | 2024 | |
| Military expenditure (% of GDP) | 2.01043 | 2024 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 2.40743e+08 | 2023 | |
| Population | 9.24177e+07 | 2025 | |
| Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) | 770,514 | 2025 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 157,912 | 2025 |
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.
General Debate statements
74 statements to the General Debate since 1946, 247,722 words in all. The longest was 1987, at 8,291 words, delivered by ALI KHAMENEI.
Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×23, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×9. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.
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Emblems and location
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Treaties joined
88 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| A/RES/80/282 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/286 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/296 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/293 B | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/294 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/293 A | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/297 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/299 | - | yes |
Provenance
Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | IR | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.906762+00:00 |
| iso3 | IRN | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.906772+00:00 |
| m49 | 364 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.142370+00:00 |
| name | Iran | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.906743+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1945-10-24 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.906753+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.142384+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
- UN Research Guides (Dag Hammarskjold Library) — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source