Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari is an Iranian career diplomat, academic and current Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has held various significant diplomatic and cabinet posts since the 1990s.

Zarif is also a visiting professor at the School of International Relations and University of Tehran, teaching diplomacy and international organizations. He was the Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007.During his tenure as foreign minister, he led the Iranian negotiation with P5+1 countries which produced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on 14 July 2015, lifting the economic sanctions against Iran on 16 January 2016.Zarif has held other domestic and international positions as well: adviser and senior adviser to the Foreign Minister, Deputy Foreign Minister in Legal and International affairs, member of the UN Eminent Persons Group on Dialogue Among Civilizations, Head of the UN Disarmament Commission in New York, member of the Eminent Persons Group on global governance, and Vice President for International Affairs of the Islamic Azad University.

✵ 7. January 1960
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Famous Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

“All ethnicities and groups in Syria should begin the process of reconstruction within a single unit under the Syrian flag.”

2018-09-03, during his visit to Damascus on September 2018, IFP News

“The art of a diplomat is to conceal all turbulence behind his smile.”

On his Facebook status on 24 November 2013. According to [Kamali Dehghan, Saeed, Mohammad Javad Zarif: Iran's man on a diplomatic mission, The Guardian, 2013-11-25, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/mohammad-javad-zarif-iran-profile, harv, 2015-04-04]
On social media

“The concept of a velvet revolution in Iran should not be considered as groundless fear.”

18 November 2008, According to Archived copy, 2015-07-06, yes, https://archive.is/20120908203416/http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html, 8 September 2012, dmy-all http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html,
Interview to CNN, Revolution

“We do not jail people for their opinions[.]”

On 29 April 2015, Zarif appearing on the Charlie Rose talk-show, when asked about the detention of Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter held in Iran for the past nine months. According to [Iranian foreign minister angers supporters with human rights claim, 1 May 2015, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/iranian-foreign-minister-angers-supporters-human-rights-charlie-rose]
Interview to CNN, Revolution

“Beautiful military equipment don't rule the world, People rule the world. People.”

Interview to CNN, January 7, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyH6QmFmeZE
Interview to CNN

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