Mohammad Javad Zarif

Mohammad Javad Zarif is an Iranian <a href="/facts/Career_diplomat/HP56MrVL">career diplomat</a> and academic. He served as the vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025. He was the <a href="/facts/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Iran)/QapDosPl">foreign minister of Iran</a> from 2013 until 2021 in the government of <a href="/facts/Hassan_Rouhani/UBpGIJIL">Hassan Rouhani</a>.
During his tenure as foreign minister, Zarif led the Iranian negotiation with <a href="/facts/P5%2B1/Nxxs22kp">P5+1</a> countries which produced the <a href="/facts/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action/ee9rq1qH">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a> on 14 July 2015, lifting the economic <a href="/facts/Sanctions_against_Iran/XV81s5Pc">sanctions against Iran</a> on 16 January 2016. Zarif resigned from his post as foreign minister in February 2019. His resignation was rejected by Supreme Leader of Iran, <a href="/facts/Ali_Khamenei/NcL1YHPS">Ali Khamenei</a>, and he continued as foreign minister.
Zarif has held various significant diplomatic and cabinet posts. He is a visiting professor at the <a href="/facts/School_of_International_Relations/sggQdYaV">School of International Relations</a> and <a href="/facts/University_of_Tehran/3NkndgMK">University of Tehran</a>, teaching diplomacy and international organizations. He was the <a href="/facts/Permanent_Representative_of_Iran_to_the_United_Nations/xvCedYPo">Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations</a> from 2002 to 2007. He served as an advisor and senior advisor to the Foreign Minister, Deputy Foreign Minister in Legal and International affairs, member of the UN Eminent Persons Group on <a href="/facts/Dialogue_Among_Civilizations/03wgkMyW">Dialogue Among Civilizations</a>, Head of the UN Disarmament Commission in New York, and Vice President for International Affairs of the <a href="/facts/Islamic_Azad_University/PMGqNk2y">Islamic Azad University</a>.

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Mohammad Javad Zarif