TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif failed to convince Majlis lawmakers yesterday and received his second yellow card in his last months in office.

Zarif who had been summoned to Majlis to answer the questions of some lawmakers could not convince them and be shown another yellow card.

Addressing the open session of Majlis and in response to a question by the lawmakers, Zarif said, “Today is the last day of Trump’s infamous presidency in the United States, and their policy of maximum pressure has failed with the help of the great Iranian nation.”

He added: “The duty and goal of foreign policy are to prevent the policies of the United States, rivals and others; the foreign policy tools are also clear.”

Regarding these tools, he added: “Foreign policy relies on national tools, but the tools at the disposal of the foreign minister are interviews, negotiations and coalition building, and we have nothing else but these tools.”

Zarif said: “Today is the last day of Donald Trump’s infamous presidency in the United States, and with the same tools and with the help of the Iranian people, we have been able to defeat the U.S. policy of maximum pressure, which of course was due to the resistance of the great Iranian nation.”

In response to a parliament’s question regarding negotiation with the U.S. one week after the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Zarif said that the Iranian nation’s resistance along with diplomacy led to the defeat of Trump in foreign policy.

He stressed that all mass communication media acknowledge that the US’s maximum pressure policy failed due to the people’s resistance and diplomacy.

Concerning his meeting with an Israeli Zionist element one week before the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, which the foreign ministry denied the meeting at that time, Zarif said that the meeting referred to one year and a half before the assassination, and was about the extradition of Dr. Soleimani who was jailed in the U.S.

In the end, the lawmakers did not get content with the foreign minister’s explanations over the meeting, and therefore, he received a yellow card.

The minister also receives another yellow card over his explanations failed about the weak economic diplomacy of the Foreign Ministry.

According to Majlis statute, the minister after getting his third yellow card can be impeached