Vice President Javad Zarif says he has resigned from the attorney’s advice to ease the pressure on President Masuud Pezeshkian on administration.
In a post on his X account early Monday, Zarif wrote that he visited Attorney Gollum Hossein Moseni Ejay on Saturday at the invitation of Moseni Ejay. During the meeting, the Attorney General advised, “Given the conditions of the country, I will return to the university (teach) to avoid more pressure on the administration.”
Zarif said he received advice immediately, as he always wanted him to “help help, not burden.”
He said he hopes that by leaving the government it will hinder “people’s will and the success of the government.”
“I am proud to support the venerable Dr. Pezeschkian and I wish him the best of other true servants of him and others,” he said.
At the end of Sunday, sources told the IRNA that Zarif had submitted his resignation to the president.
Since he was taken away as Vice President, Zarif has been subject to a fierce heath by a group of lawmakers in Congress, as at least one of his children, who claimed that his appointment to a sensitive post was illegal, holds US nationality.
According to Iranian law, individuals who hold foreign citizenship or hold such citizenship cannot be assigned to sensitive posts in the Iranian government.
The Pezeschkian administration has forwarded the bill to Congress to amend the law to accommodate recruitment of individuals whose children did not acquire foreign nationality by choice, as in Zarif’s case. The Vice President’s children were born in the United States while he was a student before he was posted on the United Nations mission in Iran in New York.
The dispute had not yet been resolved, but amendments to the law were underway, and even the leaders of the Islamic Revolution were said to have Ali Khamenei in favor of reform of the law.
MNA/