{"id":67026,"date":"2025-03-03T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=67026"},"modified":"2025-03-03T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:09:22","slug":"javed-zarif-steps-down-as-irans-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/javed-zarif-steps-down-as-irans-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Javed Zarif steps down as Iran\u2019s Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Vice President for Strategic Affairs<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/irans-parliament-removes-economy-minister-over-economic-mismanagement\/\"> Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/a> has resigned from his post.<\/p>\n<p>He has sent his resignation to President Masoud Pezishkian, who has yet to make a decision on it.<\/p>\n<p>No official statement has been issued in this regard yet.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Zarif said he had resigned on the advice of the head of the judiciary to help ease pressure on President Pezishkian&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X account on Monday morning, Zarif wrote that he had visited the head of the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Eji, on Saturday at Mohseni Eji&#8217;s invitation.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the head of the judiciary had suggested that &#8220;Given the situation in the country, I will return to the university to avoid further pressure on the administration,&#8221; IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif said he took the advice immediately because he did not want to be a burden on the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to support the esteemed Dr. Pezishkian and I wish him and other true servants of the people the best,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned from his post. He has sent his resignation to President Masoud Pezishkian, who has yet to make a decision on it. No official statement has been issued in this regard yet. Earlier, Zarif said he had resigned on the advice of the head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":67027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26912],"class_list":["post-67026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-mohammad-javad-zarif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67028,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026\/revisions\/67028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}