Ardeshir Zahedi

Ardeshir Zahedi GCVO 16 October 1928 18 November 2021 was a prominent Iranian politician and diplomat who served as the countrys foreign minister from 1966 to 1971 and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s He was the last official Iranian ambassador to the US He resigned his position following the Iranian revolution in 1979 and overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty