Amir Bagheri

{{short description|Iranian chess grandmaster (born 1978)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox chess player

|name = Amir Bagheri

|image = Amir Bagheri GM Chess.jpg

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|country = {{IRI}} (until 2005; 2008–2021)
{{FRA}} (2005–2007)
{{MON}} (since 2021)

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|9|20}}

|birth_place = Tehran, Iran

|death_date =

|death_place =

|title = Grandmaster (2003)

|rating =

|peakrating = 2541 (October 2003)

|FideID = 12500283

}}

Amir Bagheri ({{langx|fa|امیر باقری}}; born September 20, 1978) is an Iranian-Monegasque chess grandmaster. He is the second Iranian to achieve the grandmaster title.{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3588|title=Iran emerges as a chess nation|last=Akbarinia|first=Arash|date=2007-01-05|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=2009-07-15}}

He qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 but did not play due to visa problems. He was knocked out in the first round of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/event/fide2000/fiderd1.html|title=FIDE World Chess Championships 2000 in New Delhi and Tehran|publisher=The Week in Chess Magazine|accessdate=2009-07-15}}

Bagheri played for Iran in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000 and 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/7tj5z1dd.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Amir Bagheri|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=2009-07-15}}