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He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2013 and 2021. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Interview_to_CNN">Interview to CNN</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Interview to CNN"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><b>His (<a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>) threats will not frighten us</b></i>. But what he is showing something- he is showing to the International community that he has no respect for <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">International law</a>, that he is prepared to commit war crimes because attacking cultural sites is a <a href="/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes">war crime</a> and disproportionate response is a war crime. But he doesn't care, it seems, about International law. But he has made <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> more secure? Do Americans feel more secure? Are Americans welcome today in this region? Do they feel welcome? <ul><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyH6QmFmeZE">Interview to CNN, January 7, 2020</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Beautiful military equipment don't rule the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>, People rule the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>. <i>People</i>. <ul><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyH6QmFmeZE">Interview to CNN, January 7, 2020</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Revolution">Revolution</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Revolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"The concept of a velvet revolution in Iran should not be considered as groundless fear." <ul><li>18 November 2008, According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20120908203416/http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html">Archived copy</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2012-09-08">8 September 2012</span>. Retrieved on 2015-07-06.</li></ul></li> <li>"We do not jail people for their opinions[.]" <ul><li>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 <cite style="font-style:normal" class="news">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/iranian-foreign-minister-angers-supporters-human-rights-charlie-rose">Iranian foreign minister angers supporters with human rights claim</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. 1 May 2015.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Iranian+foreign+minister+angers+supporters+with+human+rights+claim&rft.jtitle=%5B%5BThe+Guardian%5D%5D&rft.date=1+May+2015&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2015%2Fmay%2F01%2Firanian-foreign-minister-angers-supporters-human-rights-charlie-rose&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Mohammad_Javad_Zarif"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li> <li>"All ethnicities and groups in <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> should begin the process of reconstruction within a single unit under the Syrian flag."(during his visit to Damascus on September 2018). IFP News (2018-09-03).</li> <li>"Currently, Americans have focused on psychological warfare and are doing their best to place psychological pressure on <a href="/wiki/Iranians" title="Iranians">Iranians</a> and our international partners." (during an interview with the state TV). IFP News (2018-08-26).</li> <li>"In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It’s not always <a href="/wiki/Politically_correct" class="mw-redirect" title="Politically correct">politically correct</a> to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality. I have benefited from the knowledge and the information that all these people have been able to provide to me. I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn’t mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with." According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_social_media">On social media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: On social media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Iran never <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">denied</a> it [<i><a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a></i>]. The man who was perceived to be denying it (<a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a>) is now gone." <ul><li>4 September 2013 on his Twitter account, replying to Christine Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s daughter and a former chief of staff for Representative John Tierney, of Massachusetts. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"The art of a <a href="/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy">diplomat</a> is to conceal all turbulence behind his smile." <ul><li>On his Facebook status on 24 November 2013. According to Kamali Dehghan, Saeed (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2013-11-25">2013-11-25</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/mohammad-javad-zarif-iran-profile">Mohammad Javad Zarif: Iran's man on a diplomatic mission</a>. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_About_Mohammad_Javad_Zarif">Quotes About Mohammad Javad Zarif</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Quotes About Mohammad Javad Zarif"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_his_professors">By his professors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: By his professors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"[He was] good in the classroom. At that time ... I thought he'd play an important part in his country's life." <ul><li>Ved P. Nanda, Thompson G. Marsh Professor of Law at the University of Denver, who taught Zarif and was on his dissertation committee. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"He was among the very best students that I’ve ever taught, He’s just a very nice person." <ul><li>Edward Thomas Rowe, Associate Professor of Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, who led the committee that oversaw Zarif’s dissertation. According to Nussbaum, Matthew (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2015-07-12">2015-07-12</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.denverpost.com/2015/07/12/iranian-diplomat-zarif-made-impression-at-du/">Iranian diplomat Zarif made impression at DU</a>. The Denver Post. Retrieved on 2015-07-12.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_Israeli_counterparts">By Israeli counterparts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: By Israeli counterparts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"He [Zarif] is a very shrewd person and a very charming person and a very shrewd negotiator." <ul><li>Dan Gillerman, former Israeli ambassador to UN, in an interview with Fox News. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4140057797001/israeli-reaction-to-us-iran-nuclear-negotiations/">Israeli reaction to US-Iran nuclear negotiations</a>. Fox News (2015-03-28). Retrieved on 2015-03-29.</li></ul></li> <li>"Zarif went. We are rid of him." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, Prime Minister of Israel, on his official Persian account on Twitter account in response to resignation of Zarif on February 27, 2019 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/israelipm_farsi/status/1100313878376996864">link</a>) According to Javedanfar, Meir (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2019-02-27">2019-02-27</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/02/israel-hopes-iran-zarif-resignation-crack-syria-policy.html#ixzz5guitgzag">Israel hopes Zarif resignation reveals cracks in Iran's Syria policy</a>. Al-Monitor. Retrieved on 2019-02-27.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_American_counterparts">By American counterparts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: By American counterparts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Kissinger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Henry_Kissinger.jpg/220px-Henry_Kissinger.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Henry_Kissinger.jpg/330px-Henry_Kissinger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Henry_Kissinger.jpg/440px-Henry_Kissinger.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2453" data-file-height="3720" /></a><figcaption>A respected adversary. ~ <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>"[Zarif is] extremely well-informed [about the US] and deeply knowledgeable [about his own country]. He's admirably suited by temperament, background and education to work on these issues that have divided the US and Iran for 34 years". <ul><li>William Green Miller, a former US ambassador to Ukraine who met Zarif frequently in New York. According to Kamali Dehghan, Saeed (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2013-11-25">2013-11-25</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/mohammad-javad-zarif-iran-profile">Mohammad Javad Zarif: Iran's man on a diplomatic mission</a>. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"Zarif had achieved the final breakthrough without which the <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">[Hamid] Karzai</a> government might never have been formed [in <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>]". <ul><li>James F. Dobbins, the State Department's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in his testimony before the U.S. Congress. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"Zarif is a tough advocate, but he’s also pragmatic, not dogmatic, He can play an important role in helping to resolve our significant differences with Iran peacefully." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"He doesn’t play games, He doesn’t produce incendiary sentences. He is thoughtful. He is real. He wants to help his people and lead them in a different direction. That’s important to me in my measurement of a person.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein">Dianne Feinstein</a>. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"To [Zarif] a respected adversary." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a> wrote in a copy of his book <i>Diplomacy</i> which gave Zarif as a gift in a farewell party shortly before leaving the U.N. in 2007. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li> <li>"He [Zarif] was intelligent, courteous, disciplined, interesting to talk to, I conducted the conversation to educate myself, so I did not try to persuade him [Zarif] of any particular approach, except my basic theme was that, on the basis of national interests, there is no conflict between Iran and the United States. Everything beyond that is ideological." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a>. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_European_counterparts">By European counterparts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: By European counterparts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"He’s a craftsman. The proof is the 123 lives that we brought back to their families and homes". <ul><li>Giandomenico Picco, an Italian diplomat and the former U.N. hostage negotiator about Zarif’s "invaluable" role, between 1989 and 1991, in freeing Western hostages held by in Lebanon. According to Wright, Robin (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-05-26">2014-05-26</span>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/the-adversary-2">The Adversary</a>. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_writers">By writers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: By writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In September 2013, a month after <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a> backed down from launching strikes against <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Assad</a> to punish him for using chemical weapons, he and <a href="/wiki/Hassan_Rouhani" title="Hassan Rouhani">President Rouhani</a> spoke on the phone while they were both at the <a href="/wiki/UN_General_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="UN General Assembly">UN General Assembly</a>. The Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">US secretary of state</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a>, sat down for a tête-à-tête. It was the highest level of contact between the two countries since <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Revolution" title="Iranian Revolution">1979</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudis</a> were shocked and felt deeply betrayed. They had long since moved on from the era of détente in the 1990s and had a particular aversion to back channels between Iran and the United States. They’d felt betrayed before by such talks, and it made them feel deeply insecure about their place in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and their role as America’s top ally in the <a href="/wiki/Arab_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab world">Arab world</a>. The Saudi-US alliance, based on oil for security, had its limitations, and the relationship had been sorely tested by events like the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. Meanwhile, there were policymakers in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a> who felt Iran held more promise of <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">turning into a democracy</a> than a desert <a href="/wiki/Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom">kingdom</a> with an <a href="/wiki/Absolute_monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Absolute monarchy">absolute monarchy</a>. The Saudis were apoplectic when they heard such musings. The Obama administration also believed that if a deal could be reached while the reformers were in power, an improved economy would further strengthen the reformers and show how much the hardliners had failed the people. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ghattas" class="extiw" title="w:Kim Ghattas">Kim Ghattas</a>, <i>Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East</i> (2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Javad_Zarif&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #F1F8F1; width: 275px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; 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