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Ali Bagheri Kani is an Iranian diplomat who is currently the deputy secretary for the Supreme National Security Council. He was formerly political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran from September 2021 to September 2024, along with being the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2024. He is considered to be close to the Iranian principlists and to be part of the inner circle of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.