Mehdi Sanaei has been appointed as a senior advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

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).

Late last year, Mehdi Sanaei as Iran’s envoy to Russia, who was ending his tenure in the country, Novak expressed content that in the past six years, good efforts have been done to improve common and regional relations between Tehran and Moscow.