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Hamid Aboutalebi

Hamid Aboutalebi (16 June 1957-) was an Iranian politician who served as ambassador to Italy from 1988 to 1992, to Belgium from 1995 to 2000, and to Australia from 2003 to 2006.

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Hamid Aboutalebi was born on 16 June 1957 in Tehran, Iran. Aboutalebi was one of the students involved in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and he served as a translator for the protesting students during the Iran hostage crisis with the United States, albeit with peripheral involvement in the incident. Aboutalebi obtained a Ph.D. in sociology frm the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium after gaining a master's degree in sociology in Paris and in Islamic civilization and culture in Tehran. He served as an Iranian ambassador to many countries, including Italy, Belgium, and Australia, and he became a permanent representative of Iran to the United Nations. In 2014 he was denied a visa due to allegations that he was a hostage-taker back in 1979, against a 1947 treaty which said that any representative to the UN would be given a visa to meet at the UN building in New York City.

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