Manouchehr Mottaki (Persian: منوچهر متکی , born 12 May 1953 in Bandar Gaz) is the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Whilst technically appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he is considered to be closer to more pragmatic conservative factions and during the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of Ali Larijani, the right-conservative candidate.

He grew up in Bandar-Gaz and went to school there. Bandar-Gaz by that time during the Reza Shah Pahlavi considered an important city in the north with a national railroad and several infrastructures.This was because the city was considered as a transit bridge to the north mainly to the former Soviet Union. After graduation, he joined the army and as national plan joined the public education program by that day which was conducted by the government. He went to Khorasan province and established a school in a poor village around Mashhad and taught there. After his service in the army, since he was interested in social and political issues, he decided to travel abroad both for experience and study. By that time many Iranians traveled to India as a popular academic destination. So he traveled there for a few years before the revolution in Iran.

After the revolution, he was elected by the people of his home town and the neighboring cities as the first parliament representative and assigned by other representatives as the head of the national security and foreign policy committee due to his politic and diplomatic talents. During his years in Majlis (Congress) and effective collaboration with the foreign ministry, he was employed by the ministry after parliament.He already served as member of parliament in the first Majlis, head of seventh political bureau of Foreign Ministry (1984), Iran's ambassador to Turkey (1985), Foreign Ministry's secretary general for Western European affairs (1989), deputy foreign minister for international affairs (1989) and deputy foreign minister for legal, consular and parliamentary affairs (1992).He has also been Iran's ambassador to Japan (1994), advisor to foreign minister (1999), deputy head of Culture and Islamic Communications Organization (2001) and Head of foreign relations committee of 7th Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. he then developed within the ministry during 24 years of continuous presence in different positions. He worked in many positions in the Majlis until Ahmadinejad appointed him as Foreign Minister.