M. Javad Zarif

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His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif (Persian: محمد جواد ظریف), born January 8, 1960, is the current Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary-General on August 5, 2002. From 1992 until his appointment to his current position, he had worked as the Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs. Between 1989 and 1992, he had been the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Javad Zarif attended the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver and obtained a Ph.D. in International Law and Policy. He also attended San Francisco State University as a graduate student in the Department of International Relations.

In 2000, Dr. Zarif served as chairman of the Asian Preparatory Meeting of the World Conference on Racism and as the chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Commission.

Dr. Zarif was also a Professor of International Law at the Tehran University. He has served on the board of editors of a number of scholarly journals, including the Iranian Journal of International Affairs and Iranian Foreign Policy and has written extensively on disarmament, human rights, international law, and regional conflicts. [1]

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• The biography of H.E. Dr. Javad Zarif at the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
• Ambassador Zarif's profile at the U.N. Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations in 2001
• Statement by H.E. Dr. Zarif at the UN (17 June 1998)
• Charlie Rose Show: Christiane Amanpour speaks to H.E. Dr. Javad Zarif (April 2006)
• Statement by H.E. Dr. Zarif before the UN Security Council (July 31, 2006)
• H.E. Dr. Zarif speaks at Princeton University (August 2006)