The Iranian ambassador in Tokyo is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Government of Japan.

Till August 16, 1971 the Iranian Ambassador to Japan was accredited in Taipei. List of representatives Diplomatic accreditation Diplomatic accreditation Solar Hijri calendar Ambassador Persian language Observations List of heads of state of Iran List of prime ministers of Japan Term end Term end Solar Hijri calendar1308Hovhannes MasehyanReza Shah PahlaviHamaguchi Osachi13091309Hovhannes Masehyan Reza Shah PahlaviWakatsuki Reijirō13101310Hassan-Ali Kamal Hedayat (fa)Reza Shah PahlaviSaitō Makoto13121312Bagher Azimi (fa)Bagher AzimiReza Shah PahlaviOkada Keisuke13161316Ali-Mohammad SaybaniReza Shah PahlaviHayashi Senjūrō13171317Mahmoud Bahadori From 1316 to 1319, Iran did not have a minister in Japan. On December 25, 1318, the National Salvation Council approved a friendly treaty between the governments of Iran and Japan. Japan was Hitler's German ally. Reza Shah PahlaviHiranuma Kiichirō13191319Abolqasem Najm25 August to 17 September 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of IranReza Shah PahlaviYonai Mitsumasa13211323On occupied Iran declared war on Japan under pressure from Britain and Russia. Ali Soheili ordered the interruption of his diplomatic relation with the Japanese government and summoned Abolqasem Najm to Tehran. This breakup continued until . Mohammad Reza Shah PahlaviShidehara Kijūrō13321333Musa Nuri EsfandiariMohammad Reza Shah PahlaviHatoyama Ichirō13351335Hossein Ghods-NakhaiMohammad Reza Shah PahlaviKishi Nobusuke13361336Abbas AramMohammad Reza Shah PahlaviKishi Nobusuke13381338Javad Sadr Mohammad Reza Shah PahlaviIkeda Hayato13421342Hormoz Qarib (fa)Mohammad Reza Shah PahlaviSatō Eisaku13471347Fazlollah Nureddin KiaMohammad Reza Shah PahlaviSatō Eisaku13511354Abdol-Hossein HamzaviMohammad Reza Shah PahlaviFukuda Takeo1356Naser Majd ArdakaniMohammad Reza Shah PahlaviŌhira Masayoshi13581358Qasem SalehkhuAbolhassan BanisadrSuzuki Zenkō1361Abdorrahim Govahi (ja)Ali KhameneiNakasone Yasuhiro13651365Mohammad Hossein AdeliAli KhameneiNakasone Yasuhiro1369Hossein Kazempour ArdabiliAkbar Hashemi RafsanjaniMiyazawa Kiichi13731373Manouchehr MottakiAkbar Hashemi RafsanjaniMurayama Tomiichi1378Ali Majedi (fa)Mohammad KhatamiMori Yoshirō1382Mohsen TalaeiMohammad KhatamiKoizumi Jun’ichirō1385Abbas AraghchiSeyyed Abbas Araghchi Mahmoud AhmadinejadAsō Tarō1389Majid Mojtahed ShabestariChargé d'affaires is a brother of Mohammad Mojtahed-Shabestari (1936–) Hojjat al-Islam. The third brother, Ali Ashraf Mojtahed-Shabestari, served as ambassador to Tajikistan, ambassador and assistant to the Permanent Representative Office of Iran at the Geneva office of the United Nations, head of the Foreign Ministry's FinanceMajid Motallebi ShabestariMahmoud AhmadinejadNoda Yoshihiko1397Reza Nazar-AhariMahmoud AhmadinejadNoda Yoshihiko1397Morteza Rahmani-Movahed (ja)Hassan RouhaniShinzō Abe202214001400Mohammad Reza Loghmanihttps://tokyo.mfa.ir/portal/newsview/679064 Chargé d'AffairesEbrahim RaisiFumio Kishida202314011401Peyman Saadathttps://en.mfa.ir/portal/newsview/713820/Iran-envoy-to-Japan-meets-FM-Amirabdollahian Ebrahim RaisiFumio Kishida Ehsan Yar-Shater, Encyclopædia Iranica, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2008, p. 555

See also Iran–Japan relations

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