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


Iran says new U.S. sanctions target Iranians' access to food, medicine

Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports on social media said a number of Iranian websites -- including those of some petrochemical firms -- were under a cyber attack.

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, October 30, 2018

Iran's Zarif: Result of any strike against Tehran would be 'all out war'

The United States has been discussing with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies possible responses to an attack on Saudi oil facilities.

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

Australia lobbies for release of three citizens held by Iran

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Tuesday confirmed two British-Australian women and the Australian boyfriend of one of them had been jailed in Iran.

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attends a joint news conference after meeting with Norway's Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide in Oslo, Norway, August 22, 2019.

Iran to violate nuke deal again, sets fourth deadline for November

Statements by both Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif indicated that Tehran would start using more of its advanced centrifuges in violation of the deal.

A view shows railway packages for containers with uranium hexafluoride salt, raw material for nuclear reactors, similar to the one be used for the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank

Zarif: US must honor nuclear deal if it wants talks

Channel 13: Netanyahu tried to scuttle a Trump-Iranian meeting

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at "Common Security in the Islamic World" forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 29, 2019

Nukes, terrorism and Zarif’s ‘economic terrorism’ - analysis

Iran is about a week away from a self-set deadline that could lead it to significantly escalate its so far limited violations of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend a meeting with Muslim leaders and scholars in Hyderabad, India, February 15, 2018

Iran looks to China, Japan, Malaysia to seek relief from U.S. sanctions

Foreign Minister Zarif visits Asian countries to improve economic ties.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the start of their bilateral meeting in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan August 28, 2019

Zarif invites Iranians to watch his TED talk on banned Youtube

Both Instagram and Youtube are banned in the Islamic Republic.

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif attends a news conference in Moscow

Iranian reporter with Zarif flees in Sweden, seeks asylum – report

Fazel was political editor for Iran’s Moj news agency and had previously worked for the government-funded Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attends a joint news conference after meeting with Norway's Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide in Oslo, Norway, August 22, 2019.

Trump caught off guard as Iran's Zarif lands in G7 summit town

A White House official said France's invitation to Mohammad Javad Zarif for talks on the sidelines of the meeting in the Basque beachside town of Biarritz was "a surprise."

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Union Council President Donald Tusk, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Tru