Iran's Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned on Sunday evening, strongly hinting at his resignation letter, hinting that he was kicked out by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Kameni and other theocratic hardliners.
Zarif, 65, was Iran's Foreign Minister from 2013 to 2021 and served as Iran's leading negotiator for the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal was signed by President Barack Obama, but President Donald Trump I retreated It quotes Iran's support for fraud and terrorism from the 2018 JCPOA.
Zarif was considered a leader in the “moderate” or “reform” wings of Iranian politics. Zarif along with Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran when the JCPOA was negotiated. Approval Masuud Pezeschkian is the “moderate” candidate to replace Hardline President Ebrahim Raisi after he died in a helicopter crash in a special election in June 2024.
Terms like “moderate” and “reform” are very relative in Iranian politics, especially as Western media constantly abuse such languages to portray leaders such as Zarif and Luhani rather than “hardman.”
Pezeshkian, for example, won an upset victory to become a moderate reformist president, but he had little help in stopping Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. Direct attack After Hamas began the war on October 7, 2023, the missiles were two times in Israel along with the missiles.
Zarif was rewarded for supporting Pezeschkian with the plum perch as vice president. He was actually the vice president of Strategic Issues, one of several vice presidents of the Iranian government, but Zarif exercised with Pezeshkian in a similar way to his fellow running peers.
Zarif has become the main target of hardliners in the power struggle of Iran's endless factions. He actually resigned just two weeks after he took office during the power struggle over the composition of Pezeschkian's cabinet. Pezeschkian refused to accept his resignation, and Zarif was back at his desk by the end of the month.
Pezeschkian didn't do it immediately accept Zarif resigned for the second time on Monday.
Zarif's opponents have Hound dog He is an invitation A law that superficially prohibits Iranians from holding public office if they hold double citizenship. Zarif's children were born in the United States when he was part of Iran's mission to the United Nations, so they naturalize American citizens who hold our passports.
Zarif I wrote it Testy Social Media Posts On Sunday night, he complained about facing “the most ridiculous insults, slander and threats to my family over the past six months.”
Zarif said he would resign from the advice of Iranian Supreme Court Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, who told him to “return to university” to “avoid further pressure on the government.” Zarif has worked as a university professor and guest lecturer, most of the time, as he was not a government official.
“I hope that the excuses and government success to stand aside and sabotage people's will will be removed,” he writes on social media platform X.
Zarif is rubbing under the restrictions imposed by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who holds all the real powers of Iran. I'm so happy issued In February, the dict order banning negotiations with the Trump administration, and Pezeschkian I said On Sunday he submitted to the will of Ayatollahs.
“Personally, I believed it would be better to have consultations. But the Supreme Leader said we wouldn't negotiate with the United States. So we also announced that we wouldn't negotiate with the United States. That's the end,” Pezeschkian said, setting the stage for the resignation of his diplomat vice president.
Another development on Sunday was impeachment The former Minister of Finance Abdulnassar Hemati president Candidate.
Pezeshkian tried to defend Hemati by arguing that Iran's economic issues “have nothing to do with one person and we cannot blame it all on one person.” Hardline lawmakers began doing just that, delivering an angry sermon about how life is getting difficult for Iranians before voting for Hemati for blunder each.
Zarif was like that head Committee's choice As the chief of the province and other senior officials in the Pezeshkian regime, Henmati's discharge signaled that his own position was tenuous.
And so was Hemmati's opponent. It's quite open boot He comes as a signal that Iran was not interested in making concessions to improve its economic ties with the Western world. Hemati's wing of Iranian politics argued that the severe sanctions imposed after President Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA, coupled with Iran's devastating losses in Syria and Lebanon during the Gaza conflict, made it impossible to reduce inflation without building better relations with the US and Europe.
