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


After smiling diplomacy, Iran's Zarif watches nuclear deal collapse

The 2015 nuclear deal, which lifted international sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program, was Zarif' crowning achievement to date.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Trump slams Kerry for 'possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy'

President accuses former secretary of state of negotiating "mess" of a nuclear deal with Iran.

 Compilation photo showing US President Donald Trump and then US Secretary of State John Kerry meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif

Report: Kerry met Iranian foreign minister in attempt to salvage nuclear deal

Zarif insisted on Thursday that his government has implemented its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.

Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, at the United Nations in New York, September 26, 2015.

Amid Trump threats, Tehran says nuclear deal is all-or-nothing

“Iran will not renegotiate what was agreed years ago and has been implemented,” Zarif said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Foreign Minister: Iran will not renegotiate nuclear deal

Trump has said that unless European allies fix the “terrible flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal by May 12, he will refuse to extend US sanctions relief for oil-producing Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a meeting

'We will level Tel Aviv to the ground' senior Iranian official warns Israel

"The US and Israeli leaders don’t know Iran and don’t understand the power of resistance and therefore, they continuously face defeat."

Iranian secretary of the Expediency Council arbitration body Mohsen Rezaei speaks during a news conference in Tehran

Lavrov issues rare rebuke of Iran for calling for Israel's destruction

"We have stated many times that we won’t accept the statements that Israel, as a Zionist state, should be destroyed and wiped off the map."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia

Iranian foreign minister: Israel's 'myth of invincibility' has crumbled

Zarif described Netanyahu's speech at the Munich Security Conference as a "cartoonish circus."

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Fearing Trump will torpedo Iran deal, European partners plead for its preservation

"It is absolutely necessary to have this to prevent the development of nuclear weapons at a time when other parts of the world are discussing how to get them," says German foreign minister.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson attends a news conference with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel and European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels, Belgium January 11, 2018

New Year’s lessons from the Iranian protests

Iran’s protests tell us that even when people are confronted with the power of the state they are still willing to risk everything.

Opponents of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold a protest outside the Iranian embassy in west London