Mohammad Javad Zarif

Iran 'paid heavy price' for supporting proxies, Palestinians, ex-FM Zarif says at Doha Forum

Zarif argued that Jerusalem misread Iran’s staying power when the fighting resumed earlier this year. “The Israelis launched this aggression based on mistaken assumptions,” he said.

 Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former Iranian Foreign Minister, gives a speech during an election rally in support of  Iranian presidential election candidate Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Iran, on June 24, 2024.
 Iran's Vice-President for Strategic Affairs Mohammed Javad Zarif speaks during the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2025.

Zarif to Israeli scholar: Israel invented Iranian threat to ‘sell peace with Arabs’ to Israelis

 Iran's Vice-President for Strategic Affairs Mohammed Javad Zarif speaks during the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2025.

Javad Zarif, the 'nice face of Iran,' resigns as VP amid Tehran's anti-West shift

 Iran's Vice-President for Strategic Affairs Mohammed Javad Zarif speaks during the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2025.

'Iran had no knowledge of October 7,' Zarif says at Davos


Close bond forged between Kerry, Zarif key to ending US-Iran sailor standoff

In the end it came down to a series of telephone calls between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pose for a photograph before resuming talks over Iran's nuclear program in Lausanne March 16, 2015.

Obama and Zarif shake hands in New York, marking first such handshake in 30 years

A senior Iranian official said the handshake on Monday at the United Nations headquarters "was not preplanned."

Obama and Zarif

Nuclear Ayatollah is shy a backbone

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America remains Iran's 'number one enemy' despite nuclear deal, top cleric says

The statement was made by Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the hardliner who leads the Assembly of Experts, the influential body that will pick Iran's next Supreme Leader.

Iranian students hold pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in front of an anti-US mural, painted on the wall of the former US Embassy in Tehran

Iran launches charm offensive among wary Gulf Arabs

Iran's deputy foreign minister: The goal of this visit is "strengthening ties and developing cooperation in all the fields" with Iran's neighbors.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talks with reporters before meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva in January.

Zarif answers Iranian critics: Nuclear deal preserves our red lines

Iranian hardliners are upset that the deal with world powers went against some of their "red lines."

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Zarif lashes out at those making military threats against Iran despite nuclear deal

Iranian FM's comments come a day after US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says deal does not take military option off the table.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Rouhani tweets, then deletes, news of nuclear deal

After tweet deleted, Zarif quoted as saying that a deal would not be closed by the end of the night.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani