Iran’s newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to name Abbas Araghchi as foreign minister, the Tasnim news agency reported, bringing the chief negotiator on the 2015 nuclear deal into the heart of government.
Araghchi, who was deputy to ex-Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the presidency of Hassan Rouhani that ended in 2021, has already been advising Pezeshkian on communication with world leaders and non-state allies like Hezbollah since his election win on Saturday, Tasnim said, citing an informed source.
Araghchi was Iran’s chief negotiator in talks with the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China that led to ...
