Mohammad Javad Zarif

Zarif visits OPCW and victim memorials

📅 23 June 2016

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited the OPCW and memorials associated with chemical-attack victims, connecting diplomacy with the memory of wartime suffering.

UN consultations confront the question of direct negotiations

📅 28 July 1988

UN officials urged consideration of direct talks, while Iranian representative Javad Zarif described the current meetings as consultations with the secretary-general.

Iran updates Sardasht’s reported death toll and protests inaction

📅 6 July 1987

Javad Zarif reported that Sardasht’s chemical-attack death toll had risen to 35 and expressed surprise that the Security Council had not acted. This was an interim Iranian count.