Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh is not resigning, a spokesman for his ministry said on Tuesday. Kasra Nouri, director of the Oil Ministry’s Public Relations, dismissed the rumors circulating in some media that Zanganeh had submitted his resignation, one day after Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced he was resigning. “Mr. Zanganeh will do whatever is […]

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has voiced his surprise over the sudden resignation of his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, asking him to stay in his position and not to resign. During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Kono said that he had met with Zarif and talked on the phone with him several times, […]

Iranian Quds Force’s Commander Major General Ghasem Soleimani said that there has been no intention behind the absence of Foreign Minister Zarif in meetings of Syrian president in Tehran. In reaction to Zarif’s resignation and rumors going around, Soleimani highlighted that Zarif’s absence in meetings of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Iranian president and Leader […]

According to spokesperson for the Parliament’s national security committee, the majority of lawmakers have signed a letter in support of Zarif, asking him to continue his tenure as Iran’s foreign minister. Ali Najafi Khoshroudi, spokesperson for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told reporters on the sidelines of today’s open session that a […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the country’s foreign ministry, oil ministry, and the Central Bank are standing at the front line of the fight against Washington. He made the remarks Tuesday in a meeting with officials of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in Tehran. “Today, Foreign Ministry, CBI and Oil Ministry are at the […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his Iranian counterpart’s resignation would not change Washington’s policy toward Iran “We note @JZarif’s resignation,” Pompeo said in a Twitter post on Monday. “We’ll see if it sticks… Our policy is unchanged,” he added. Last night, Zarif announced his resignation from the cabinet in a post on his […]

More than 150 Iranian lawmakers asked President Hassan Rouhani to turn down Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation, while the president’s chief of staff has rejected reports that the president has accepted the top diplomat’s resignation. In comments on Tuesday morning, rapporteur of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said a group of […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif called on officials in charge of casting the final verdict on endorsement of the two remaining FATF-related bills to base their decisions on ‘facts’. Speaking to reporters on Sunday on the sidelines of a national conference on multilateralism in Iran’s foreign policy, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif answered a question on […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran’s response to blunt the impact of US sanctions will come as a ‘surprise’ to US President Donald Trump. Zarif made the remark in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitungpublished on Thursday, while answering a question on Washington’s efforts to cut down Iran’s oil exports. He said the effort […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned the Israeli regime that its “dangerous” adventurism in the bombing of Syria could result in a military conflict in the region. “There is adventurism on Israel’s side, and adventurism is always dangerous,” Zarif said in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper published on Wednesday. Iran is in […]