Mohammad Javad Zarif
Mohammad Javad Zarif is an Iranian career diplomat and academic. He served as the vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025. He was the foreign minister of Iran from 2013 until 2021 in the government of Hassan Rouhani.
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Jun 19, 2026
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The former foreign minister, now a vice president for strategic affairs, advised Pezeshkian on outreach to the West.
Principlists denounce him as a symbol of the 2015 JCPOA's failures and accuse him of shaping a dangerous policy.
Jun 15, 2026
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Former foreign minister Zarif criticized the government's handling of the nuclear file and called for renewed diplomacy.
Ridiculed by Principlists as a naive appeaser whose policies failed to lift sanctions, serving as a symbol of reformist defeatism.