Gaddam Dharmendra next envoy to Iran
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, November 4
A 1990-batch IFS officer, Gaddam Dharmendra, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is presently Additional Secretary at MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) Headquarters in charge of Public Policy and Research division and will replace current envoy to Tehran Ambassador Saurabh Kumar.
He previously served as Consul General in Hong Kong and Ambassador to Zambia.
Dharmendra is expected to take up the assignment shortly at a time when India is under immense pressure from the United States to reduce oil imports from Iran to zero not withstanding a temporary waiver from the Trump administration to eight nations towards oil trade. Iran is the third largest supplier of crude oil to India after Iraq and Saudi. India and Iran are also closely engaged in the Chabahar Port project which provides alternate access to Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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