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Iran Lawmakers Petition for Zarif to Remain as Foreign Minister
Iran Lawmakers Petition for Zarif to Remain as Foreign Minister
26 Feb 2019, 01:55 PM IST
(Bloomberg) -- Iran parliamentary deputies are petitioning to keep Javad Zarif as foreign minister after his resignation late Monday.
(Bloomberg) -- Iran parliamentary deputies are petitioning to keep Javad Zarif as foreign minister after his resignation late Monday.
About 150 deputies, or a third of the chamber’s lawmakers, signed a letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani, state-run Tasnim news agency reported, citing Mostafa Kavakobian, a member of the parliament’s national security committee.
Rouhani hasn’t yet accepted Zarif’s resignation.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ladane Nasseri in Dubai at lnasseri@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Alaa Shahine at asalha@bloomberg.net, Claudia Maedler
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