Javad Zarife left surprisingly in his resignation on Tuesday. According to diplomatkällor he is sick to death of his job and frustrated to go around the world as a figurehead for the regime in Iran.
But the Zarifs parent, president Hassan Rouhani, trying frantically to persuade his foreign minister to remain. ”He (Rouhani) is behind Zarife”, says the president’s chief of staff Mohmoud Vaezi told Reuters.
a majority of the members of the Iranian parliament in an open letter to the president in which they urged him to keep Javad Zarife as foreign minister.
Zarife has been foreign minister since 2013. Together with president Rouhani negotiated he year 2015 until the agreement on Iran’s restriction of the core technology. The agreement means that the international sanctions against Iran are eased.
But this agreement is Zarife in the keg. ”The hardliners” in the iranian power apparatus, where the clergy and the military are two strong factors, think that the minister has been too lenient towards the western nations. A sign that Mohammad Javad Zarife fallen out of favor appeared in the Monday, then he was not invited to a meeting in Tehran with the syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
on-the-spot, many years and legendomsusad the leader of the irgc elite unit Quds.
Many Iranbedömare mean that the secretary of Zarifs precarious position – and the president’s attempts to support him – is a part of a power struggle between a västtillvänd faction and the more hard-line united states – and Israelmotståndare.
It is no coincidence that Mohamad Javad Zarife announced his departure on Instagram. The minister has a Instagramkonto with 655.000 followers, despite the fact that social media is considered as halvillegalt of Iran’s lawmakers.
