Publish Date: 7 August 2021 - 17:29

TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) – President Ilham Aliyev has appointed the former Azeri consul general to the Iranian city of Tabriz as the country's new ambassador to Tehran.

At the behest of President Ilham Aliyev, Ali Alizade has replaced Bonyad Hosseinov as Baku's Ambassador to Tehran.

The 43-year-old Ali Alizade was the consul general to the Iranian city of Tabriz, the provincial capital of East Azerbaijan of Iran, between 2010- 2016. 

Prior to this, the new Azeri envoy to Tehran also served as the Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan.

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