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TEHRAN, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Iran is considering appointing the first female embassador of the Islamic republic since 1979, the Iranian students' news agency (ISNA) reported on Thursday.
Marzieh Afkham, the incumbent spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, will leave Tehran next month to serve as ambassador to Malaysia, the report said.
Afkham, who also heads the Center for Public and Media Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry, has served as the first female spokesperson for the ministry since September 2013, when President Hassan Rouhani took office.
The last female ambassador dispatched by Iran was Mehranghiz Dolatshahi, who served as Tehran's envoy to Denmark for three years until the 1979 Islamic revolution, ISNA said.
