Mohammad Javad Zarif

Mohammad-Javad Zarif
محمد جواد ظریف
Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations
In office
5 August 2002 – 25 July 2007
President Mohammad Khatami
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by Hadi Nejad Hosseinian
Succeeded by Mohammad Khazaee
Personal details
Born January 8, 1960 (1960-01-08) (age 52)
Tehran, Iran
Alma mater University of Tehran

Mohammad Javad Zarif (Persian: محمد جواد ظریف), (b. 8 January 1960) is a former 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 the U.N., 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.

Career

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, 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.

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]

Zarif resigned from his position as Permanent Representative of Iran on July 6, 2007.[2] He was succeeded by Mohammad Khazaee.[3] [4][5] In 2007, Zarif was a headline speaker at an American Iranian Council conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey including Chuck Hagel, Dennis Kucinich, Nicholas Kristof, and Anders Liden to discuss Iranian-American relations, and potential ways to increase dialogue and avoid conflict.[6]

Zarif currently teaches at Iran's School of International Relations in Tehran.

In 2008 Zarif said that US secretly planned to invoke a revolution to topple the Iranian leadership.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Javad Zarif". Un.org. http://www.un.org/Dialogue/Zarif.html. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 
  2. ^ "Welcome to the personal web site of Dr. M. Javad Zarif". Zarif.net. http://www.zarif.net/cv.html. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 
  3. ^ "وب سایتهای ایرنا - Irna". http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0707105140195837.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 
  4. ^ "وب سایتهای ایرنا". Irna. http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0707268940012831.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 
  5. ^ http://www.un.int/iran/
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ "Has the U.S. Played a Role in Fomenting Unrest During Iran’s Election?". Foreign Policy Journal. 2009-06-23. http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/06/23/has-the-u-s-played-a-role-in-fomenting-unrest-during-irans-election/. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 
  8. ^ "Has the U.S. Played a Role in Fomenting Unrest During Iran’s Election?". Foreign Policy Journal. 2009-06-23. http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/06/23/has-the-u-s-played-a-role-in-fomenting-unrest-during-irans-election/. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 

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