Ramin Mehmanparast

Ramin Mehmanparast
Ambassador of Iran to Poland
In office 16 March 2014 – 22 July 2018
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Samad-Ali Lakizadeh
Succeeded by	Masoud Edrisi
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In office 12 October 2009 – 11 May 2013
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Hassan Ghashghavi
Succeeded by	Abbas Araghchi
Ambassador of Iran to Kazakhstan
In office 2004–2009
President	Mohammad Khatami
Ambassador of Iran to Thailand
In office 1996–2000
President	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Personal details
Born	1960 (age 62–63) Tehran, Iran
Spouse(s)	Fatemeh Yaqubi (deceased) Maryam Kavyani ​ ​ (m. 2018; div. 2021)​

Ramin Mehmanparast (Persian: رامین مهمانپرست) is an Iranian diplomat, the former spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry and the former ambassador to Poland and Lithuania. He was the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of the "Center for Public Diplomacy & Media" and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 31 October 2009 until his resignation on 11 May 2013. He was also the ambassador of Iran to Thailand from 1996 to 2000 and Kazakhstan from 2004 to 2009.^{[citation needed]}

After the December 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in the United States, Mehmanparast expressed his condolences to the American people and the victims' families.^[1]

Mehmanparast was nominated for 2013 presidential election on 11 May 2013 and left his position as the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry on the same day. He withdrew from his nomination on 19 May 2013.

Marriage

He married Iranian actress Maryam Kavyani in October 2018.^[2]

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