Mohammad Javad Zarif

…deputy to the chief negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and later pushed to revive the deal after the United States withdrew from it in 2018. He was appointed Iran’s minister of foreign affairs shortly after the 2024 inauguration of Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian, who wanted to pursue a deal for sanctions relief…

…without controversy, and in mid-August Mohammad Javad Zarif, Pezeshkian’s newly appointed vice president of strategy and the Iranian negotiator of the 2015 nuclear agreement, announced his resignation (although he ultimately returned to his post later that month). Authorities in December rolled back some of the Internet restrictions imposed during the…