A former Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, died on Thursday from wounds sustained in US–Israel strikes on 1April, Iranian state media reported.
Kharazi, 81, served as the head of the Strategic Council for International Relations, which operates under the foreign ministry.
The veteran diplomat, “who was injured in a terrorist attack carried out by the American-Zionist enemy a few days ago, died a martyr tonight,” the Mehr and Isna agencies reported on Telegram.
Media reports said his wife was killed in the same strike on their home in Tehran.
Kharazi served as Iran’s envoy to the United Nations in New York before becoming foreign minister from 1997 to 2005 under reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top military and political figures have been killed in strikes since the Middle East war began with US–Israeli attacks on February 28.
