TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appointed Mehdi Sanaei as his senior advisor, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Mehdi Sanaei has been appointed as a senior adviser to Iranian Foreign Minister.

Sanaei was Iran's former ambassador to the Russian Federation.

He was a lawmaker at Iran’s Islamic Parliament from 2008 to 2013. During his tenure in the Parliament, he was deputy to Foreign Policy Committee in the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission (NSFPC).

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