Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is planning to implement some structural changes in the Iranian Foreign Ministry as he begins his second term in office � and it is not clear how successful these changes will be.


A great part of Zarif�s first four years as foreign minister was spent�resolving Iran�s nuclear file, a task that�also engaged two of his key deputies, namely Majid Takht-Ravanchi, the deputy foreign minister for European and American affairs, and�Abbas Araghchi, the deputy for legal and international affairs.

After several rounds of negotiations, Iran and the group of six countries known as the P5+1 ultimately reached a�comprehensive nuclear agreement�on July 14, 2015. However, because the talks diverted a great portion of the ministry�s attention�away from other issues, the negotiations�were accompanied by some domestic criticism.

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