Mohammed Javad Sarif
Mohammed Jawad Sarif ( Persian محمد جواد ظریف پیرانشهری Mohammad Jawad Zarif , DMG Moḥammad-Ǧavād Ẓarīf ; * January 7, 1960 in Tehran ) is an Iranian politician. He is the foreign minister of Iran.
Life
Sarif studied international law and political science at the University of Denver . At times he was a professor of international law in Tehran.
He was the UN ambassador from 2002 to 2007 (also in the Ahmadineschād I cabinet ), previously he was Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister from 1992 to 2002 (under Ali-Akbar Rafsanjani and Mohammad Chātami ). On August 4, 2013, he was nominated by President Hassan Rouhani for the office of Foreign Minister, and on August 15, he took office.
Like Rohani, Sarif is one of the first and few representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran to use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as a regular communication tool to spread political messages and views. However, such web services are blocked within Iran as part of comprehensive internet censorship. Rouhani's announcement in autumn 2013 to rethink this practice has not yet been implemented. According to observers, the already scarce freedom of expression and freedom of the press has deteriorated dramatically since Rouhani's inauguration with a “downright hunt for bloggers and internet activists”. In a joint press conference with Sarif, the Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski , sharply criticized the existing censorship at the end of February 2014 and expressed concern about the increase in executions in Iran that will be recorded when Rouhani took office .
On February 25, 2019, he surprisingly announced his resignation as Foreign Minister on Instagram . In a letter to President Rouhani, the Iranian parliament spoke out against Zarif's resignation and Rouhani did not accept the resignation and Zarif continues to exercise his office.
Positions
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Sarif is often described as a "moderate technocrat" because he also entered unofficial meetings with US diplomats. In many of his statements, he explicitly identifies himself with the goals of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the global claim of the “ Islamic Revolution ” of 1979. In his autobiography, which appeared in Tehran at the beginning of 2014, he writes:
“We have a fundamental problem with the West and America in particular […] The reason is that we claim a mission for ourselves, with a global dimension. It has nothing to do with the extent of our strength, rather it is about where we derive our raison d'etre. How is it that Malaysia [a Muslim majority country] doesn't have similar problems? Because Malaysia is not trying to change the international order. "
Sarif has distanced himself from the Holocaust denials of the former President Ahmadinejad . He explicitly condemned the Holocaust in early September 2013 . In the same breath he called "the oppression of the Palestinians by the Zionists ". On the sidelines of the 50th Munich Security Conference in 2014, he described the Holocaust as a “terrible tragedy [...], and that must never happen again”. However - according to Sarif - "this cannot be used as an excuse for violating the rights of the Palestinian people".
In January 2014 Sarif put on a visit to Lebanon a wreath at the grave of the former military commander of Hezbollah , Imad Mughniyah , in Beirut down. According to Time magazine, he is considered one of the most influential people in the world .
According to Sarif, the Trump administration's policy towards Iran follows Israeli interests.
Web links
- CV ( Memento from February 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Official Facebook Page (Persian)
- Official Twitter account (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Iran's foreign minister condemns the Holocaust - Spiegel Online
- ↑ Iran's President Rouhani promises freedom of social networks. In: Spiegel Online. October 2, 2013, accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ donkey: Iran: For Facebook Posts to death row. (No longer available online.) In: publikative.org. January 26, 2015, archived from the original on March 16, 2015 ; accessed on March 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Excerpt from the press conference , youtube.de, accessed on March 6, 2014.
- ↑ Meeting with the Isfahan Province governor and laying a wreath in the Polish section of a Christian cemetery dating back to World War II, Minister Radosław Sikorski began his visit to Iran last Friday. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Republic of Poland, February 28, 2014, accessed December 27, 2015 (notice from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
- ↑ Iran: Foreign Minister Sarif announces resignation . Spiegel Online, February 25, 2019.
- ↑ Iran's foreign minister: Mr Zarif's puzzling resignation . In: tagesschau.de, February 26, 2019 (accessed February 26, 2019).
- ^ Benjamin Mueller: Two Days After Resigning, Iran's Foreign Minister Returns to Post. In: New York Times. February 27, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Iran's new president: Rouhani sworn in - Ahmadineschād resigns. In: Spiegel Online . August 4, 2013, accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Ali Alfoneh, Reuel Marc Gerecht: An Iranian Moderate Exposed. Everyone thought Iran's foreign minister was a pragmatist. They were wrong. In: New Republic . January 24, 2014, accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Holocaust Condemned: Trouble for Iran Ministers. In: Merkur Online. Retrieved December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Zarif interview: phoenix provides the original English passage and a new German translation. In: Phoenix , press portal. February 4, 2014, accessed February 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Reuters report, January 13, 2014
- ^ Mohammad Javad Zarif Time 100
- ↑ Iran FM Zarif: US sanctions are 'economic terrorism'. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarif, Mohammed Javad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zarif, Mohammad-Javad; Zarif, Mohammad-Jawad; محمدجواد ظریف (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |