Mohammad Javad Zarif

Peace of the wicked: Mohammad Javad Zarif reframes the Iranian threat - opinion

A prolonged conflict reflects mutual attrition, not dominance that entitles one side to impose terms.

|BySALEM ALKETBI
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.
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 '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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

‘Zarif’s allegations are based on unfounded quotes redacted by pro-regime lobbyists,’ said Iran expert Dr. Thamar E. Gindin.

|ByOHAD MERLIN
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

Zarif had already been at the center of controversies in Iran because some politicians had critiqued him over the last several months. 

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Why doesn’t Iranian media and regime care about Lebanon’s disaster?

Iran has one message: Israel is bad, Iran’s government stands by Lebanon, Hezbollah denies involvement.

AUGUST 8, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

France, Germany, UK 'accessories' to Trump, Netanyahu, Iran's Zarif says

The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors called on Iran in the resolution earlier on Friday to stop denying the agency access to two suspected former nuclear sites.

JUNE 19, 2020ByREUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2019.

Iranian foreign minister challenges Trump to return to nuclear deal

Trump tweeted on Thursday of White's release: "Thank you to Iran, it shows a deal is possible!"

JUNE 5, 2020ByREUTERS
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Thursday any U.S. or Saudi military strike against Iran would result in "all-out war"

Why the Iran-US standoff is going to get worse - analysis

Iran, however beat-up, is not tired or willing to change its goals, but is happy to fight and suffer – as long as it makes its adversaries to suffer also.

MAY 12, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Thursday any U.S. or Saudi military strike against Iran would result in "all-out war"

Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif in Syria to meet with Assad

The one-day visit comes days after alleged Israeli drone strike.

APRIL 20, 2020ByANNA AHRONHEIM
FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2019.

Rouhani: US sanctions not impeding fight against coronavirus

Iran’s president statements contradict Zarif.

APRIL 4, 2020ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is seen during meeting with health ministry top officials in Tehran

Iran FM: Middle East has no record of antisemitism

"In this region, we do not have a record of antisemitism. People of the region have always hosted – and continue to host – Jews in a warm manner."

FEBRUARY 21, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees

US senator defends meeting with Iranian FM

“If they met, I don’t know what they said. I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own,” Mike Pompeo reacted.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy listens as Majory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg speaks via Skype to Democratic Senators at a forum on gun violence at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC, U.S., March 7, 2018.

Iran's Zarif: We were close to war with US after Soleimani assassination

Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the US and Iran were "very close to a war" and that, at the moment, the black box of the crashed Ukrainian airliner is not being touched.

FEBRUARY 15, 2020ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif speaks with the media on the sidelines of a security conference in New Delhi

IRGC: 'Great Satan' US, 'Zionist' Israel behind protests in Iran

It is one of the first major comments in which Iran directly blamed Israel.

DECEMBER 3, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
People protest against increased gas price, on a highway in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019.