{"id":33275,"date":"2019-02-26T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33275"},"modified":"2019-02-26T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:23:13","slug":"iran-foreign-minister-javad-zarif-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33275","title":{"rendered":"Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Iran&#8217;s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who played a key role in the 2015 nuclear deal, announced his resignation Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I sincerely apologize for the incapacity to continue serving and all the shortcomings during the service,&#8221; Zarif wrote on his Instagram account, adding, &#8220;Be happy and upbeat.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Tuesday morning, he urged foreign ministry employees and Iranian diplomats not to follow suit. &#8220;I humbly urge all my colleagues in the Foreign Ministry and Iran&#8217;s foreign missions to be fully committed to defending the country and avoid taking such measures,&#8221; Zarif said in a message to the ministry&#8217;s personnel, Iran state media IRNA reported. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Iran&#8217;s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who played a key role in the 2015 nuclear deal, announced his resignation Monday.&#8221;I sincerely apologize for the incapacity to continue serving and all the shortcomings during the service,&#8221; Zarif wrote on his Instagram account, adding, &#8220;Be happy and upbeat.&#8221;On Tuesday morning, he urged foreign ministry employees and Iranian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}