List of diplomatic visits to Iran

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This is a list of foreign heads of state, heads of government who have visited Iran, which is classified by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as either a state visit, official visit, or working visit.

List of state visits to Iran till 19 July 2022.
  1–3 visits
  4–5 visits
  6–10 visits
  11–20 visits
  21 or more visits
  Iran

Scheduled future visits

Summary of visits

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CountryGuestTitleDateSignificance
Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–present) •
Masoud Pezeshkian Presidency
(2024–present)
RussiaVladimir PutinPresidentAugust 2026Official visit
EgyptAbdel Fattah El-SisiPresidentTBDOfficial visit
IndonesiaPrabowo SubiantoPresidentTBDOfficial visit
TurkeyRecep Tayyip ErdoganPresidentTBDOfficial visit
PakistanShehbaz SharifPrime Minister26 May 2025Official visit
QatarTamim bin Hamad Al ThaniEmir29 February 2025Official visit
IraqMohammed Shia' Al SudaniPrime Minister8 January 2025Official visit
Ebrahim Raisi Presidency
(2021–2024)
TajikistanEmomali RahmonPresident22 May 2024Funeral of Ebrahim Raisi
ArmeniaNikol PashinyanPrime Minister
PakistanShahbaz SharifPrime Minister
IraqMohammed Shia' Al SudaniPrime Minister
GeorgiaIrakli KobakhidzePrime Minister
AzerbaijanAli AsadovPrime Minister
TurkeyCevdet YılmazVice President
IndiaJagdeep DhankharVice President
TunisiaKais SaiedPresident
SyriaHussein ArnousPrime Minister
QatarTamim bin HamadEmir
Burkina FasoApollinaire J. Kyélem de TambèlaPrime Minister26 April 2024
ZimbabweConstantino ChiwengaVice President26 April 2024
NigerAli Lamine ZeinePrime Minister24 January 2024
CubaMiguel Díaz-CanelPresident4 December 2023
IraqMohammed Shia' Al SudaniPrime Minister6 November 2023
UzbekistanShavkat MirziyoyevPresident18 June 2023
OmanHaitham bin TariqSultan28 May 2023
PakistanShahbaz SharifPrime Minister18 May 2023
IraqAbdul Latif RashidPresident29 April 2023
KazakhstanÄlihan SmaiylovPrime Minister25 April 2023
BelarusAlexander LukashenkoPresident13 March 2023
Iraq Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani[1] Prime Minister 29 November 2022
BelarusRoman GolovchenkoPrime Minister22 November 2022
ArmeniaNikol PashinyanPrime Minister1 November 2022
RussiaVladimir PutinPresident19 July 2022
TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
IraqMustafa Al-KadhimiPrime Minister27 June 2022
KazakhstanKassym-Jomart TokayevPresident19 June 2022
TurkmenistanSerdar Berdimuhamedow15 June 2022
VenezuelaNicolás Maduro10 June 2022
TajikistanEmomali Rahmon29 May 2022
QatarTamim bin HamadEmir12 May 2022
SyriaBashar al-AssadPresident8 May 2022
IraqMustafa Al-KadhimiPrime Minister12 September 2021
SyriaImad Khamis12 January 2020
QatarTamim bin HamadEmir
PakistanImran KhanPrime Minister13 October 2021
AlgeriaAymen Benabderrahmane5 August 2021inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi
ArmeniaNikol Pashinyan
IraqBarham SalihPresident
AfghanistanAshraf Ghani
Hassan Rouhani Presidency
(2013–2021)
IraqAdil Abdul-MahdiPrime Minister22 July 2019
TajikistanSirodjidin Aslov1 June 2019[2]
PakistanImran Khan21–22 April 2019
IraqAdil Abdul-Mahdi6 April 2019
SyriaBashar al-AssadPresident25–26 February 2019
IraqBarham Salih17 November 2018
RussiaVladimir Putin7 September 2018
TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Sri LankaMaithripala Sirisena13 May 2018
RussiaVladimir Putin1 November 2017
AzerbaijanIlham Aliyev
IraqHaider al-AbadiPrime Minister26 October 2017
ArmeniaKaren Karapetyan9 October 2017
TurkeyRecep Tayyip ErdoğanPresident4 October 2017
AfghanistanAshraf Ghani5 August 2017Second inauguration of Hassan Rouhani
ArmeniaSerzh Sargsyan
IraqFuad Masum
MoldovaIgor Dodon
ZimbabweRobert Mugabe
LesothoLetsie IIIKing
QatarAbdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al ThaniPrime Minister
SwazilandBarnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
SyriaImad Khamis
IraqHaider al-Abadi21 June 2017
GeorgiaGiorgi Kvirikashvili22–23 April 2017
AzerbaijanIlham AliyevPresident6–7 March 2017
SwedenStefan LöfvenPrime Minister11–12 February 2017
MoldovaIgor DodonPresident10 February 2017Women's World Chess Championship 2017
AfghanistanAbdullah AbdullahChief Executive Officer11 January 2017Funeral of Hashemi Rafsanjani
IndonesiaJoko WidodoPresident13–14 December 2016
SloveniaBorut Pahor21–22 November 2016
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBakir Izetbegović[3]Chairmen of the Presidency25 October 2016
FinlandSauli Niinistö[4]President25–26 October 2016
VenezuelaNicolás Maduro22 October 2016
BulgariaBoyko BorissovPrime Minister11 July 2016
IndiaNarendra Modi22 May 2016
AfghanistanAshraf GhaniPresident
CroatiaKolinda Grabar-Kitarović17 May 2016
South KoreaPark Geun-hye1 May 2016
South AfricaJacob Zuma24 April 2016
SerbiaTomislav Nikolić17 April 2016
ItalyMatteo RenziPrime Minister12 April 2016
KazakhstanNursultan NazarbayevPresident11 April 2016
VietnamTrương Tấn Sang13 March 2016
TurkeyAhmet DavutoğluPrime Minister4 March 2016
 SwitzerlandJohann Schneider-AmmannPresident26 February 2016
AzerbaijanIlham Aliyev23 February 2016
GhanaJohn Dramani Mahama14 February 2016
GreeceAlexis TsiprasPrime Minister7 February 2016
ChinaXi JinpingPresident
General Secretary (paramount leader)
22 January 2016
PakistanNawaz Sharif[5]Prime Minister19 January 2016
AfghanistanAbdullah Abdullah[6]Chief Executive Officer5 January 2016
HungaryViktor Orbán[7]Prime Minister1 December 2015
BoliviaEvo MoralesPresident23 November 2015Third GECF summit
RussiaVladimir Putin
VenezuelaNicolás Maduro
Equatorial GuineaTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
NigeriaMuhammadu Buhari
AlgeriaAbdelmalek SellalPrime Minister
AzerbaijanIlham AliyevPresident
EgyptAbdel Fattah el-Sisi
KazakhstanKarim MassimovPrime Minister
QatarTamim bin Hamad Al ThaniEmir
Trinidad and TobagoKeith RowleyPrime Minister
IraqFuad MasumPresident
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
AustriaHeinz Fischer[8]President8 September 2015
KyrgyzstanAlmazbek Atambayev[9]5 September 2015
Iraq Nouri al-Maliki[10] Prime Minister16 August 2015
Fuad Masum[11]President13 May 2015
AfghanistanAshraf Ghani[12]19 April 2015
TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan[13]7 April 2015
KuwaitSabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah[14]Emir1 June 2014
TurkeyRecep Tayyip ErdoğanPrime Minister29–30 January 2014
AfghanistanHamid Karzai[15]President8 December 2013
OmanQaboos bin Said al Said[16]Sultan25 August 2013
AfghanistanHamid KarzaiPresident4 August 2013First inauguration of Hassan Rouhani
ArmeniaSerzh Sargsyan
Guinea-BissauManuel Serifo Nhamadjo
KazakhstanNursultan Nazarbayev
KuwaitSabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah[17]Prime Minister
KyrgyzstanAlmazbek AtambayevPresident
LebanonMichel Suleiman[18]
North KoreaKim Yong-nam[19]
PakistanAsif Ali Zardari[20]
QatarTamim bin Hamad Al ThaniEmir
Sri LankaMahinda RajapaksaPresident
SwazilandBarnabas Sibusiso DlaminiPrime Minister
SyriaWael Nader Al-Halqi[21]
TajikistanEmomali RahmonPresident
TogoFaure Gnassingbé
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Presidency
(2005–2013)
SyriaWael Nader al-Halqi[22]Prime Minister15–16 January 2013
United Nations Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General26–31 August 201216th Non-Aligned Summit
United Nations United Nations General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-NasserPresident
Afghanistan Hamid Karzai[23]
Benin Yayi Boni[24]
Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré
Central African Republic François Bozizé[25]
Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh[25]
Egypt Mohamed Morsi[23]
Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba[24]
Guinea-Bissau Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo
Lebanon Michel Suleiman[23]
Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj[26]
North Korea Kim Yong-nam[27][28]
Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari[29]
Palestine Mahmoud Abbas[30]
Senegal Macky Sall
Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa[31]
Sudan Omar al-Bashir[23]
Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[32]
Uganda Yoweri Museveni[33]
Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe[23]
Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon[34]
Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani[35] Emir
Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina[36]Prime Minister
Bhutan Jigme Thinley[37]
Cambodia Hun Sen[citation needed]
India Manmohan Singh[38]
Iraq Nouri al-Maliki[34]
Morocco Abdelillah Benkirane
  Nepal Baburam Bhattarai[39]
Syria Wael Nader al-Halqi[40]
Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung
TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan27–28 March 2012
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[41]President27 March 20112nd Norouz Festival
IraqJalal Talabani
TajikistanEmomali Rahmon
AfghanistanHamid Karzai
ArmeniaSerzh Sargsyan
TurkeyAbdullah Gül[42]13–16 February 2011
BoliviaEvo Morales25–28 October 2010
VenezuelaHugo Chavez19–21 October 2010
SyriaBashar al-Assad[43]2 October 2010
AlgeriaAbdelaziz Bouteflika[44]15–17 May 201014th G-15 summit
BrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva[44]
SenegalAbdoulaye Wade[44]
Sri LankaMahinda Rajapaksa[44]
ZimbabweRobert Mugabe[45]
TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdogan[44]Prime Minister
TurkmenistanGurbanguly BerdimuhamedowPresident17–18 April 2010Conference on Disarmament
and Non-Proliferation
IraqJalal Talabani[46]
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow27 March 20101st Norouz Festival
IraqJalal Talabani
TajikistanEmomali Rahmon
AfghanistanHamid Karzai
VenezuelaHugo Chavez[47]5–6 September 2009
SyriaBashar al-Assad[48]19 August 2009
OmanQaboos bin Said al Said[49]Sultan4 August 2009
ArmeniaSerzh Sargsyan[50]President13–14 April 2009
VenezuelaHugo Chavez[51]2–4 April 2009
TurkeyAbdullah Gül10–11 March 200910th summit of the ECO
AfghanistanHamid Karzai
TajikistanEmomali Rahmon
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
AzerbaijanIlham Aliyev
KyrgyzstanKurmanbek Bakiyev
PakistanYousaf Raza GillaniPrime Minister
UzbekistanShavkat Mirziyoyev
KazakhstanKarim Massimov
IraqNouri al-Maliki[52]3–4 January 2009
EcuadorRafael Correa[53][54]President6 December 2008
BoliviaEvo Morales[55]1 September 2008
SyriaBashar al-Assad[56]2–3 August 2008
VenezuelaHugo Chavez[57]19 November 2007
RussiaVladimir Putin[58]16 October 20072nd Caspian Summit
AzerbaijanIlham Aliyev
KazakhstanNursultan Nazarbayev
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
IraqNouri al-Maliki[59]Prime Minister8–10 August 2007
VenezuelaHugo Chavez[60]President1–2 July 2007
IraqJalal Talabani[61]26 June 2007
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[62]16 June 2007
NicaraguaDaniel Ortega[63]10 June 2007
SyriaBashar al-Assad[64]17–18 February 2007
TurkeyRecep Tayyip ErdoğanPrime Minister2–3 December 2006
IraqJalal Talabani[65]President27–29 November 2006
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko[66] 5–7 November 2006
VenezuelaHugo Chavez[67]29–31 July 2006
ArmeniaRobert Kocharyan[68]5–6 July 2006
AfghanistanHamid Karzai[69]27–28 May 2006
IraqJalal Talabani[70]21–23 November 2005
SyriaBashar al-Assad[71]7–8 August 2005
Mohammad Khatami Presidency
(1997–2005)
VenezuelaHugo Chavez[72]President28–29 December 2004
TurkeyRecep Tayyip ErdoğanPrime Minister28–30 July 2004
IndonesiaMegawati Sukarnoputri[73]President18 February 2004D-8 4th Summit
NigeriaOlusegun Obasanjo
TurkeyAhmet Necdet Sezer
MalaysiaAbdullah Ahmad Badawi
PakistanZafarullah Khan Jamali[74]Prime Minister
BangladeshKhaleda Zia
AustriaThomas Klestil[75]President24–27 January 2004
Cuba Fidel Castro[76] 9 May 2001
India Atal Bihari Vajpayee[77] Prime Minister 10–13 April 2001
ChinaJiang ZeminPresidentApril 2001
AfghanistanBurhanuddin Rabbani[78]10 June 2000ECO 6th Summit
AzerbaijanHeydar Aliyev
KyrgyzstanAskar Akaev
TajikistanEmomali Rahmonov
TurkmenistanSaparmurat Niyazov
UzbekistanIslam Karimov
KazakhstanKassym-Jomart TokayevPrime Minister
PakistanPervez MusharrafChief Executive
AustriaThomas Klestil[79]PresidentSeptember 1999
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko[80] 6–9 March 1998
United NationsKofi Annan[81][82]Secretary-General9–11 December 1997OIC 8th Summit
Palestine Palestine Liberation OrganizationYasser ArafatChairman
PakistanNawaz SharifPrime Minister
LebanonRafic Hariri
BangladeshSheikh Hasina
MoroccoAbdellatif Filali
TurkeySüleyman DemirelPresident
LebanonElias Hrawi
SyriaHafez al-Assad
AzerbaijanHeydar Aliyev
AfghanistanBurhanuddin Rabbani
SudanOmar al-Bashir
SenegalAbdou Diouf
YemenAli Abdullah Saleh
MaliAlpha Oumar Konaré
KuwaitJaber Al-Ahmad Al-SabahEmir
QatarHamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Bosnia and HerzegovinaAlija IzetbegovićChairmen of the Presidency
MoroccoHassan IIKing
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Presidency
(1989–1997)
IndonesiaSuhartoPresident23 November 1993State Visit[83]
PakistanNawaz SharifPrime Minister16–17 February 19921st ECO Summit
TurkeyTurgut OzalPresident
AzerbaijanAyaz Mutallibov
TurkmenistanSaparmurat Niyazov
RomaniaNicolae Ceaușescu18–20 December 1989State visit
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Prime Ministership
(1981–1989)
SudanSadiq al-MahdiPrime Ministerlate 1986
United NationsKurt WaldheimSecretary-General5 January 1980
Interim Government of Iran (1979) •
Mehdi Bazargan Prime Ministership
(1979)
Palestine Palestine Liberation OrganizationYasser ArafatChairman17 February 1979
Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979) •
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Reign
(1941–1979)
Japan Takeo Fukuda Prime Minister September
ChinaHua GuofengPremier
Party Chairman
28 August 1978
India Morarji DesaiPrime Minister[84] June 1978 stop over
IsraelMenachem Begin[85]22 February 1978
United StatesJimmy CarterPresident31 December 1977 – 1 January 1978Official visit
JordanHusseinKing
Italy Giovanni Leone President 1977 State visit
IsraelYitzhak RabinPrime Minister16 July 1976
16 August 1975
Syria Hafez al-Assad President 1975
Mexico Luis Echeverría[86] President July 1975 Official visit
Saudi Arabia Prince Fahd Crown Prince July 1975
Indonesia Suharto President 26 June 1975 State Visit [87]
EgyptAnwar SadatPresident23 April 1975
Poland Piotr Jaroszewicz Prime Minister 1974
Poland Piotr Jaroszewicz Prime Minister 1974
India Indira Gandhi[88] Prime Minister 28 April  2 May 1974 State visit
United StatesRichard Nixon President30–31 May 1972Official visit
West GermanyWilly BrandtChancellor5 March 1972
AustraliaPaul HasluckGovernor-General12–16 October 19712,500 year celebration
of the Persian Empire
EthiopiaHaile Selassie[89]Emperor
DenmarkFrederik IXKing
BelgiumBaudouin
JordanHussein
  NepalMahendra
NorwayOlav V
GreeceConstantine II
LesothoMoshoeshoe II
BahrainIsa bin Salman Al KhalifaEmir
QatarAhmad bin Ali Al Thani
KuwaitSabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah
OmanQaboos bin Said al SaidSultan
MalaysiaAbdul Halim of KedahYang di-Pertuan Agong
LuxembourgJeanGrand Duke
SwedenCarl GustafCrown Prince
SpainJuan Carlos
United Arab EmiratesZayed bin Sultan Al NahyanPresident
CanadaRoland MichenerGovernor General
YugoslaviaJosip Broz TitoPresident
Soviet UnionNikolai Podgorny
AustriaFranz Jonas
BulgariaTodor Zhivkov
BrazilEmílio Garrastazu Médici
FinlandUrho Kekkonen
TurkeyCevdet Sunay
HungaryPál Losonczi
CzechoslovakiaLudvík Svoboda
PakistanYahya Khan
LebanonSuleiman Franjieh
LiechtensteinFranz Josef IIPrince
South AfricaJacobus Johannes FouchéPresident
SenegalLeopold Sedar Senghor
IndiaV. V. Giri
IndonesiaSuharto
MauritaniaMoktar Ould Daddah
MonacoRainier IIIPrince
DahomeyHubert MagaPresident
RomaniaNicolae Ceauşescu
ZaireMobutu Sese Seko
 SwitzerlandRudolf Gnägi
SwazilandMakhosini DlaminiPrime Minister
FranceJacques Chaban-Delmas
South KoreaKim Jong-pil
ItalyEmilio Colombo
Holy SeePaul VI[90]Pope25 November 1970
South Korea Park Chung-hee President 1969
United NationsU ThantSecretary-General8 February 1968
IsraelLevi Eshkol[91]Prime Minister19 June 1966
Saudi Arabia King Faisal King 1966
FinlandUrho KekkonenPresident11–12 February 1965
NorwayOlav VKing7–14 January 1965
FranceCharles de GaullePresident21 March 1963Official visit
IsraelDavid Ben-GurionPrime Minister4 November 1961
United KingdomElizabeth II[92]Queen2–6 March 1961
United StatesDwight D. EisenhowerPresident14 December 1959Addressed Iranian Parliament
India Jawaharlal Nehru[93] Prime Minister September 1959
JordanHusseinKing2 May 1959
IraqNuri as-SaidPrime Minister16 April 1956CENTO Summit
TurkeyAdnan Menderes
Soviet UnionJoseph StalinPremier
General Secretary
27 November – 2 December 1943Tehran Conference
United KingdomWinston ChurchillPrime Minister
United StatesFranklin D. RooseveltPresident
United KingdomWinston ChurchillPrime Minister20 August 1942
Reza Shah Reign
(1925–1941)
Sublime State of Iran (1907–1925) •
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Most visited Official

As of 19 July 2022
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Country Official Visit Last Visit
Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow 9 23 November 2015
Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 9 19 July 2022
Syria Bashar al-Assad 7 8 May 2022
Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon 7 29 May 2022
Afghanistan Hamid Karzai 7 8 December 2013
Venezuela Hugo Chavez 7 19–21 October 2010
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev 6 1 November 2017
Iraq Jalal Talabani 6 27 March 2011
Russia Vladimir Putin 5 19 July 2022
Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani 4 5 August 2021
Iraq Nouri al-Maliki 4 16 August 2015
Armenia Serzh Sargsyan 4 5 August 2017
Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani 4 12 May 2022
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Most visit by Country

As of 29 November 2022
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Country Visit Last Visit
Iraq 22 29 November 2022
Turkey 17 19 July 2022
Afghanistan 15 5 August 2021
Syria 14 8 May 2022
Pakistan 11 13 October 2021
Turkmenistan 11 23 November 2015
Venezuela 10 10 June 2022
Azerbaijan 9 1 November 2017
Qatar 8 12 May 2022
Tajikistan 8 29 May 2022
Armenia 8 1 November 2022
Soviet Union Russia 7 19 July 2022
India 7 22 May 2016
Kazakhstan 7 19 June 2022
Indonesia 5 13–14 December 2016
Israel 5 22 February 1978
Lebanon 5 4 August 2013
Austria 4 8 September 2015
Kuwait 4 1 June 2014
Kyrgyzstan 4 5 September 2015
Senegal 4 26–31 August 2012
Sri Lanka 4 13 May 2018
United States 4 1 January 1978
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