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


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.

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!"

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

People protest against increased gas price, on a highway in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019.

Iranian MP blames Israel, U.S., Saudis for tanker attack

The MP told the Iranian Mehr news agency that “a video captured by cameras installed on the tanker show the attack was carried out by the US, the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia.”

Damage is seen on Iranian-owned Sabiti oil tanker sailing in the Red Sea, Oct. 2019