Mohammad Javad Zarif
Former Vice President for Strategic Affairs of Iran · Iran · On the map · Politicians · Born 1960 · age 66
Mohammad Javad Zarif is an Iranian career diplomat and academic. He served as the vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025. He was the foreign minister of Iran from 2013 until 2021 in the government of Hassan Rouhani.
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Zarif outside of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
John Kerry with Hossein Fereydoun, the brother of 7th President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Javad Zarif during the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 14 July 2015
Zarif with then-U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, 9 December 2017
Zarif posed for a group photo shortly after finalizing the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna on 4 July 2015
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi held a meeting in the Iranian capital of Tehran on 13 January 2016.
Zarif with EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in Tehran, 16 April 2016
Zarif with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, 2018
