Presentation of the book "History of Iran" by Professor Vahan Baiburdyan, the first RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Islamic Republic of Iran

His Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador, orientalist, historian, diplomat, professor, and internationalist VahanBayburdyan was born in 1933 in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia, in the family displaced from Bayburd and Karin. Bayburdyan finished his bachelor’s degree at the Yerevan State University, in the faculty of Armenian Philology specialized in Eastern (Iranian) studies. He has continued his postgraduate education in the Oriental institution of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Moscow. From 1980 to 1987, was elected as the head of the General History Department at the Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University, a vice-rector of scientific work (1987-1992), a rector (1990-1991), as the first ambassador of the Republic of Armenia in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1992–1998), a head of the Iranian department of the Institute of Oriental Study of Armenia (1998-2021), a Chair of the faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Yerevan State University (2000-2008) and a professor of the same faculty(2008-2022). The scientific researches of Vahan Bayburdyan are mentioned in more than 20 Armenian and international monographs and over 200 articles, which eventually bought him an international recognition. Few of his most famous works are «Армянская колония НовойДжульфы в XVII веке»: (Роль Новой Джульфы в ирано-европейских политических и экономических связях) (Yerevan, 1969), “Turkish-Iranian relations” (1900–1914) (Yerevan, 1974), “Iran in the beginning and during the WW” (Yerevan, 1984), «Turkish foreign policy towards Iran at the beginning of the XX century” (Spahan, 1989, in Persian), “The Armenian-Kurdish relations during the Ottoman Empire from XIX to XX centuries” (Yerevan, 1989), “International Trade and the Armenians of Iran” (Tehran, 1996) and (Yerevan, 2022), “The role of Armenians in International Trade” (Tehran, 1996, in Persian), “Iran today” (Yerevan, 1999), «International Trade and the Armenian Merchants in the Seventeenth Century» (New Delhi, 2004), “The history of Iran” (from the Ancient times to the present) (Yerevan, 2005) (Yerevan, 2006) and (Yerevan, 2024), “New Julfa” (Yerevan, 2007), “The Kurds, the Armenian Question և and the Kurdish-Armenian relations under the light of the history” (Yerevan, 2008), "The history of the Ottoman Empire" (Yerevan, 2011) and (Yerevan, 2023), “The Kurds, the Armenian" Question, and the History of Armenian-Kurdish Relations” (Ottawa, 2013), “The Armenian diaspora of Iran; modern challenges» (Yerevan, 2013), “Islam” (Yerevan, 2016), The “Hangitagirq” of Stepanos Terteryan as the initial source for the history of Iran from XVII to XVIII centuries” (Yerevan, 2020), many monologues, as well as the individual volumes from “The history of the neighbors of Armenia” of the National Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenia.