Hossein Ghods Nakhai

• Name — Hossein Ghods-Nakhai • Honorific Suffix — GCVO • Office — Foreign Minister of Iran • Term Start — 1 December 1960 • Term End — 30 December 1960 • Prime Minister — Jafar Sharif-Emami • Monarch — Mohammad Reza Pahlavi • Predecessor — Jafar Sharif-Emami • Successor — Abbas Aram • Born — 1894 • Birthplace — Sari, Mazandaran province, Sublime State of Iran • Died — 30 December 1977 • Place of death — Shiraz, Fars province, Imperial State of Iran • Party — Nationalists' Party

He was the son of the Iranian clerk, Hajj Agha Hasan Nakhai. His brother was Muhammad Nakhai, who served as the Secretary of the Iranian Legation in Brussels starting in 1928. Like his father, Hossein's surname was initially Nakhaï. In his youth, he was the editor of a literature magazine, called Ghods, and so became known as "Mr. Ghods". He then added the word Ghods to his surname. He was married to the daughter of the first Iranian ambassador to U.S., Sadr es-Saltaneh, also known as Haji Washington.

He held the position of the minister of foreign affairs between 1961 and 1963. Before that he was ambassador to Baghdad, London, Tokyo (October 1956 to January 1958), and to Washington, D.C. (in the 1960s, during John F. Kennedy administration). Afterwards, he was appointed as the minister of the Royal Court, a post he held until 1968. He was replaced as the minister of court by Asadollah Alam. Afterwards, he became the ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican). He was the chairman of the committee that negotiated with the Soviet Union on the return of Iranian gold deposited with the Tsarist regime.

Nakhaï wrote extensive volumes of poetry (including his Rubaiyat), and prose (including "Trail lost in heaven"). Some of his works have been translated into English and other languages.