Mr. Mohammad Reza Heydari
He is a former Iranian consul in Oslo who resigned his post in
January 2010 in acting against his own country's Government. He resigned due to
the Iranian government's violent crackdown on protesters in the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests .Mohammed
Reza Heydari is also the first Iranian diplomat to resign in protest against the regimes
violence against the people
Career and Education
He is bachelor of International Politics from Institute for
Political & International Studies,Tehran (IPIS) and served the Iranian diplomatic service for 20
years. He had 5-year Mission’s in Georgia,
Germany and from 2007 to 2010 in Oslo.
His previous posts included:
Senior Expert at the Bureau of the Main Consular Office of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Iranian Consul in Georgia; Senior Expert at the National Organization
for Civil Registration;
Iranian Consul in Frankfurt, Germany; Senior Expert at the
Passport and Visa Office
bureaus of Tehran’s international airports; Iranian Consul in
Oslo, Norway.
Resignation
Heydari quit on 7 January 2010 saying that his act is in
opposition to Iran's latest internal issues. He tried to convince other Iranian diplomats to join him
in resigning their posts but remained alone as reported. Iran's Foreign Minister Manuchehr
Mottaki his resignation but said that the government had not accepted it.In January 2010 after his resignation, he requested political
asylum in Norway, where he and his family were living. On February 17, 2010, Norwegian
immigration authorities granted Heydari and his family asylum. In his interviews, Mr.
Heydari mentioned that he has been a supporter of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Iran’s Green
Movement. Demonstrators inIran refer to Mr. Heydari in their slogans as Iran’s ‘Green
Ambassador’.
After his resignation, Mr. Heydari founded the ‘Green Embassy
Campaign’ and persuaded the other Iranian diplomats and the members of staff at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran to join this campaign and instead of being
representatives of a ‘coup d'etat government’ as he calls it, become, in his opinion, the
ambassadors of their right-seeking nation.
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