Anoushirvan Sepahbodi
{{short description|Iranian politician and diplomat}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Anoushirvan Sepahbodi
| native_name = {{langx|fa|انوشیروان سپهبدی}}
| office = Iranian ambassador to Switzerland
| term_start = 1929
| term_end = 1931
| predecessor = Abolhassan Foroughi
| successor = Mostafaqili Kamal Hedayat
| office2 = Iranian ambassador to Italy
| term_start2 = January 1934
| term_end2 = June 1936
| predecessor2 = Mohammad Ebrahim Ghaffari
| successor2 = Mahmoud Djam
| office4 = Iranian ambassador to Russia
| term_start4 = June 1936
| term_end4 = April 1938
| predecessor4 = Hassan Arfa
| successor4 = Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei
| office5 = Iranian ambassador to France
| term_start5 = julie 1938
| term_end5 = June 1939
| predecessor5 = Abolqasem Najm
| successor5 = Abdol Hossein Sardari
| office6 = Iranian ambassador to Spain
| term_start6 = June 1939
| term_end6 = June 1939 to 1940
| predecessor6 =1919: Hossein Ala'
| successor6 =1957: Yadollah Azadi
| office7 = Iranian ambassador to Turkey
| term_start7 = 1941
| term_end7 = 1944
| predecessor7 = Bagher Kazemi
| successor7 = Ali Gholi Ardalan
| office8 = Iranian foreign minister
| term_start8 = 6 June 1945
| term_end8 = 30 October 1945
| predecessor8 = Nasrollah Entezam
| successor8 = Abolqasem Najm
| primeminister8 = Mohsen Sadr
| office9 = Iranian foreign minister
| term_start9 = 30 October 1945
| term_end9 = 28 January 1946
| predecessor9 = Nasrollah Entezam
| successor9 = Abolqasem Najm
| primeminister9 = Ebrahim Hakimi
| office10 = Iranian ambassador to Egypt
| term_start10 = 1954
| term_end10 = 1959
| predecessor10 = Massoud Moazed
| successor10 = Jamshid Gharib
| office11 = Iranian ambassador to the Holy See
| term_start11 = 1962
| term_end11 = 1966
| predecessor11 = Mohamed Saed
| successor11 = Hossein Ghods Nakhai
| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|01|01|df=yes}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|12|31|1888|01|01|df=yes}}
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| nationality = Iranian
| party =
| alma_mater = Mashir al-Dawlah
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| father = Mohammad Esmaeil
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Anoushirvan Sepahbodi ({{langx|fa|انوشیروان سپهبدی}} was an Iranian foreign minister and diplomat.
Career
In 1907 he joined the Foreign Service.
In 1910 he became Vice Consul in Vladikavkaz.
In 1926 he was chief of the protocol.
He was deputy head of the Persian mission next the Sublime Porte in the Ottoman Empire, until he was appointed second deputy chairman of the Consulate General in Tbilisi.
From 1929 to 1931 he was minister in Bern and was Permanent Representative of the Iranian Government to the League of Nations in Geneva.
From July 1933, he served three months as Secretary of State at the Foreign Ministry in Tehran.
From the beginning of 1934 he was ambassador to Rome and was simultaneously accredited to the governments in Vienna, Prague and Budapest.Malcolm Yapp, Paul Preston, Michael Patridge, British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the foreign office confidential print. From 1940 through 1945. Near and the Middle-East. Percia and Afghanistan, January 1940–December 1941, 1997 , [https://books.google.com/books?id=YWMOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Ministry+for+Foreign+Affairs+in+1907+and+worked+there+till+1910.+Vice+consul+at%22 S. 68][https://books.google.com/books?id=YWMOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Minister,+Paris,+July+1938,+and+also+accredited+to+Spain+in+June+1939%22 S. 68]
From December 19, 1933 to January 4, 1935, he negotiated a British-Persian agreement on arms trafficking in Iran and the Persian Gulf.[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100035998854.0x00001c Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention]
From June 1936 to April 1938 he was minister in Moscow.
In July 1938 Anoushirvan Sepahbodi became minister in Paris. In 1939, French satirical magazines like Le Canard enchaîné had presented the qualities of a Persian cat as that of Reza Shah.
Pierre Dac could not hope for more beautiful publicity, even if he never imagined the scandal that an article of {{Ill|L'Os à moelle (journal)|fr}} could declencehr.
Because the "French satirical newspapers", especially the weekly he runs, made fun of Reza Shah, diplomatic relations were interrupted. A delegation under the direction of General Maxime Weygand had to apologize to Reza Shah. Anoushirvan Sepahbodi was recalled from Paris and in June 1939 accredited to Francisco Franco in Madrid.Pierre Dac ne pouvait espérer plus belle publicité, mêm s'il n'a jamais imaginé le scandale qu'un article de L'Os à Moelle pourrait d´clencehr.
Parce que les « journaux satiriques français », en particulier l'hebdomadaire qu'il dirige, se sont moqués de Reza Shah, le maître de l'Iran, les relations diplomatiques se trouvent officiellement interrompues entre Téhéran et Paris.
Et pourtant, despuis la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, la France était pour les Inraiens un modèle pour l#éducation secondaire.
L'editorial dur Roi des Loufoques devient ainsin particulièrement d'actualité.
:fr:L'Os à moelle (journal), {{dts|1939|01|16}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PHfPCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Pierre+Dac+ne+pouvait++L%27Os+%C3%A0+Moelle+moqu%C3%A9s+de+Reza+Shah&pg=PA449]
From 1941 to 1945 he was ambassador in Ankara. From October 29, 1945 to early 1946, he served as Foreign Minister in the governments of Ebrahim Hakimi and Mohsen Sadr.
In February 1946, he became Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Ahmad Qavām.
In September 1946 he was sent to the Paris Peace Conference.
In August 1947 he was appointed Advisor to the Government Cabinet.
From May 1948 he also advised the Cabinet of Ahmad Qavām.
In 1949 he replaced Hakim al-Malik from as royal master of ceremonies, who had been appointed Minister of the Interior.
In 1950, as part of the reforms that led to the introduction of the Senate, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed him to his ministre plénipotentiaire in Tehran, a position he held until October 1953.
From 1954 to 1959 he was ambassador to Cairo.
From 1962 to 1966 he was ambassador to the Holy See.
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Category:Ministers of justice of Iran
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to Switzerland
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to Italy
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to the Soviet Union
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to France
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to Spain
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to Turkey
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to Egypt
Category:Ambassadors of Iran to the Holy See