TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stepped down onMonday, announcing his resignation on Instagram.
“I am apologising you for all the shortcomings … in the past years duringmy time as foreign minister… I thank the Iranian nation and officials,”he wrote on his Instagram page jzarif_ir.
There was no immediate reason giving for the resignation.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency cited a spokesman, Abbas Mousavi,confirming Zarif had resigned.
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Zarif was appointed minister of foreign affairs in August 2013, two yearsbefore Iran agreed to scale back its uranium enrichment programme andpledged not to develop nuclear weapons in return for the lifting ofinternational sanctions as part of a landmark nuclear deal brokered withthe US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union.
