two weeks after resigning, former iranian foreign minister zarif announced his return to the vice presidency
2024-08-29
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according to a report by deutsche presse-agentur on the 27th, former iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif announced on the same day that he would return to the post of vice president. two weeks ago, he said he would resign from the post of vice president.
on august 27, local time, zarif posted on the social platform x to confirm that he would continue to perform his duties as vice president for strategic affairs after talks with iranian president pezerhiziyan. according to previous reports, zarif was appointed as iran's vice president for strategic affairs and director of the center for strategic studies on august 1. on august 11, zarif announced his resignation. he said at the time that the main reason for his resignation was "dissatisfaction with the results of his work", and other problems made him "choose to continue his path at the university."
deutsche presse-agentur mentioned that zarif, 64, served as iran's foreign minister from 2013 to 2021, and represented iran in the 2015 iran nuclear negotiations and reached a historic agreement with the p5+1 (the united states, britain, france, russia, china and germany), known as the iran nuclear agreement.
the iran nuclear deal will ensure the peaceful development of iran's nuclear program in exchange for the removal of sanctions imposed by the un security council, multilateral and unilateral countries on the iranian nuclear issue. tehran has repeatedly reiterated that iran has no intention of seeking, developing or acquiring any nuclear weapons.
according to the associated press, then-us president trump unilaterally withdrew the united states from the iran nuclear deal in 2018 and re-imposed severe economic sanctions on iran. in recent years, iran and the united states have held indirect negotiations under the mediation of oman and qatar.
on august 27 local time, iran's supreme leader khamenei said that the door to restarting negotiations with the united states on the iranian nuclear issue is open. he also told iranian government officials that there is "no harm in contacting the "enemy", but don't pin your hopes on them."
