hassan rouhani: But for the president, Hassan Rouhani, the departure of such a close ally at a time of prolonged intense political pressure will be a serious blow, according to The Guardian. It will be the reaction of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, which will determine Zarif's fate. Iran's presidential chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi denied the resignation had been accepted. He has threatened to resign before as the nuclear deal came under sustained criticism by hardliners, but never so publicly. By some accounts he was not even informed in advance about the visit. Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif announces resignation Read more Zarif is quoted in the Iranian media as saying that the immediate cause of his abrupt offer to resign, announced in the middle of the night on Instagram, was the fact that he was not invited to meet Bashar al-Assad when the Syrian dictator visited Tehran on Monday.
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