Mohsen Rais (Persian: محسن رئیس; 1896[1]–1975[citation needed]) was an Iranian diplomat and served as foreign minister and as ambassador during the Pahlavi era.
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Rais was born in 1896 in Tehran.[citation needed] His father was Zahir ol-Mulk.[citation needed] He was a graduate of the University of Geneva.[citation needed]
Rais joined the Iranian foreign ministry in 1919. He served as a counsellor in Paris from 1930 to 1933.[citation needed] He was named director of the League of Nations and treaty department in the ministry in 1933 and was in office until 1935.[citation needed] He was the ambassador of Iran to Germany from 1935 to 1938.[2][3] In 1938, he served as acting foreign minister.[citation needed] He was appointed director general of the political affairs at the foreign ministry in 1938 and his tenure ended in 1939.[citation needed]
Then he held the posts of ambassador to Romania and Yugoslavia (1939-1941), ambassador to France (1941-1942), minister of posts and telecommunications (1942) and ambassador to Iraq (1943-1947). He was appointed Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom on 6 August 1947, replacing Hassan Taqizadeh in the post.[4] He held the post until 1950 and was succeeded by Ali Soheili in the post.[5] Then Rais was appointed foreign minister on 18 July 1950 replacing Mahmud Salahi who had been serving as the acting foreign minister[6][7] and his term lasted until 1951.[1] From 1958 to 1960, he was the governor-general of Azerbaijan.[citation needed] He was again transferred to diplomatic post and served as ambassador to France (1958 and 1962-1963), to the Netherlands (1960-1961) and the Court of St. James’s (1961-1962).[citation needed] His last public office was the governor of Tehran (1964-1969) and during the same period he was also a senator.[citation needed]
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