The Guardian reports that Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif, “Iran’s most prominent reformist, has resigned from the government.” Some have also referenced him as the “nice face” in Iran’s regime. But no “nice faces” or genuine “reformists” actually exist among the Iranian regime leadership. Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is also often referred to as “reformist”; in reality, he’s nothing more than a regime puppet. Pezeshkian has actually stated that “Iran seeks peace, but Israel is the aggressor.” Yet the media continues to throw around terms such as “reformist” to describe Pezeshkian and his associates. Doing so merely detracts from the serious danger that the leaders of the Islamic regime pose. They are all Islamic supremacist thugs who want to see Israel obliterated and America conquered.
In the weeks following October 7, Iran’s Zarif said this of Israel:
Israel’s fake image of resistance is now ruined. Israel’s barbaric actions is the reason for their continues defeat.
Zarif also stated of a poster on which Iran used the words “final solution” that it was “disgusting” for Israel to object to that wording.
Zarif wrote of the poster:
Disgusting that those whose civilization found a ‘Final Solution” in gas chambers attack those who seek a real solution at the ballot box, through a REFERENDUM…
Why are US and West so afraid of democracy…Palestinians should not have to pay for your crimes, or for your guilt.
Every country and, indeed, every organization, has its internal squabbles and disagreements. But the entire Iranian regime is comprised of Islamic hardliners, despite what many among the mainstream media insist. Mohammad Javad Zarif may well have quit his position over differences on what degree of hardline stance the Islamic regime should take. But it is imprudent to try present him in a falsely positive light.
“Iran’s vice-president and most prominent reformist resigns,” by Patrick Wintour, Guardian, March 3, 2025:
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s most prominent reformist, has resigned from the government, saying he had been instructed to do so by an unnamed senior official.
He implied the move was endorsed by the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, although he did not name him in his resignation letter as he stepped down as vice-president for strategic affairs.
His departure, a hammer blow to the still relatively new government of President Masoud Pezeshkian, follows the impeachment of the economy minister, Abdolnaser Hemmati, as Iranian conservatives go on the offensive using the continued decline in the national currency as a reason to demand a change of course.
The double removals pushed the Iranian stock market into a further tailspin as Iranian businesses sensed that the political path to reopening commerce with the west was fast being shut down by conservatives that never reconciled themselves to Pezeshkian’s victory.
Donald Trump’s decision to try to restore maximum economic sanctions against Tehran has undercut those Iranian reformists seeking to come to a new global agreement covering the oversight of its nuclear programme.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think he sees this regime falling and is trying to position himself as a contender in what follows once that happens