Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has returned to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government, just two weeks after leaving his post as vice president.
Zarif confirmed on the social media platform X that he is to resume his work as vice president for strategic affairs, following talks with Pezeshkian.
He vacated his post in early August after only 11 days in office due to differences with Pezeshkian, who ran as a reformist, over his conservative Cabinet.
The 64-year-old was Pezeshkian’s right-hand man during his election campaign earlier this summer and was considered one of the key masterminds of the new government’s foreign policy.
Zarif’s comeback came after pictures from the IRNA state-run news agency showed him at a Cabinet meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Zarif was Iran’s chief diplomat between 2013 and 2021 and was able to seal the landmark 2015 Vienna agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Under the deal, Tehran agreed to curtail its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of UN sanctions, which had significant impacts on Iran’s oil exports and banking sector.
The primary goal of the pact was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran has several vice presidents. The first vice president is the reformer Mohammed Reza Aref.
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