If Iran was elected president Hassan · Rouhani think he determined to rebuild relations with the U.S., and made the "grand bargain signal," he could hardly do better than Mohammad Javad Zarif pick his foreign minister.
Iranian news agency reported on Monday that former ambassador to the United Nations and the U.S. political leadership in Tehran elite connoisseur, Zarif Rouhani is set to be announced in the Cabinet took office on Sunday. A source close to the Rouhani confirmed Zarif will be nominated as foreign minister.
Zarif received his PhD at the University of Denver, can speak fluent English speaker who has been at the center of several secret negotiations, efforts to overcome 35 years of estrangement between Washington and Tehran, diplomats said.
These talks failed because of a series of disputes from Iran's secret nuclear program and support for anti-Israel militants on the U.S. sanctions, and Project Hope "regime change" in Tehran deep distrust.
Zarif's altitude, however, moderate new president are keen on another attempt to break the deadlock.
"He was always trying to do what is possible, in a very intelligent, open and transparent manner to improve relations," a senior Western diplomat said on several occasions dealt Zarif.
"This is a man who knows very well the United States is still all of the frustrations of the past, and they know that in Washington," he said.
Usually about Iran's warning applies: According to the Islamic Republic of Iran's complex institutional settings, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on foreign and security policy dictates, controlled nuclear program aims to develop nuclear weapons, Western powers said.
Foreign Minister's foreign policy pecking order generally ranked in fourth place, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the National Security Council, who also served as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, and the President's head.
Suppose, however, he also confirmed Iran's prickly heat, the conservative-dominated parliament, Zarif's appointment will be a strong stance against the United States positive intent.
Since 1980, the two countries have no official relations, the Iranian students occupied the U.S. embassy in Tehran to protest against Washington Shah 52 diplomats hostage before admission, he was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution.
Contacts
Zarif Washington contacts, including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and a who's who of U.S. national security officials on both sides of the aisle.
Soft-spoken career diplomat hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005, resigned from the nuclear negotiating team.
In 2007, he returned to Iran from New York, Permanent Representative to the UN, five years later, he found himself out of favor abandoning the concept of his country, seeking to improve relations and Ahmadinejad sidelined West English-speaking diplomats.
Since then, has been in a holding pattern Zarif, the nominally senior adviser from 2007 to 2010 the foreign minister, and then from 2011 International Islamic Azad University, online education institution, founded by former President Rafsanjan Nigeria, his political patron director.
Has long been favored, who also Rouhani mentor, Rafsanjani pragmatic reconciliation with the United States, but, Khamenei has been printed on all of these efforts, because he succeeded the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989.
A veteran American diplomat served as President Barack Obama's top adviser Dennis Ross in the stuff until 2011, said Zarif has shown a willingness to be in good faith and negotiate his appointment in Washington and will be able to see Europe, Rouhani hope "to make an indication and Western companies."
But he warned that the problem still exists, whether this will translate into loose resistance Tehran to curb its nuclear drive. Zarif is not someone who does favors for the United States, "Ross said." "He fit the category signs or signals, until you see Iran actually doing."
George · H · W · President Bush's National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, Zarif "reasonable", but he said much will depend on how much leeway he gives .
Western diplomats Zarif said: "Great bargain" began, September 11, 2001 in the negotiations between Tehran and Washington in the last major effort is central to the negotiations, the United States and attacks sank in mid-2003.
American newspapers are published in the 2007 text of the draft agreement naked, put together in Paris, Geneva and New York, secret talks between the two countries will be established to negotiate all outstanding issues.
Despite the lack of substantive agreement draft fell, it noted that the expectations of both sides on the issue, such as guaranteeing that Iran's nuclear program has no military capability, and to ensure that the United States will take action against anti-government People's Mojahedin of Islamic militants in Iraq.
"Texts are authentic," a Western diplomat said, who was involved in the back-channel talks, confirmed Khamenei gave the green light to continue the negotiations.
Hostage Negotiation
Years ago, as a junior diplomat Zarif involved in the negotiations, in order to win the Lebanese pro-Iranian gunmen release of American hostages, according to former UN envoy Giandomenico Picco memoirs. Although the United States did not make a commitment to mutual goodwill gestures when Zarif remains committed to improving relations.
In Washington, Trita Parsi, president of the pro-dialogue, Iran's U.S. Congress, said Zarif has been involved in a number of American and Iranian negotiations, the US-led invasion in 2001, including in Afghanistan talks and Tehran 2003 "grand bargain proposal" and the United States.
"Based on my interview with him, (Zarif) involved in the drafting, Passy said:" A comprehensive new beginning, then President George · W · Bush administration spurned the offer.
Senior U.S. diplomat James Dobbins, the Bonn Conference in 2001, the United States, the formation of a new Afghan government, the Taliban was overthrown, remember Zarif a pivotal role in active diplomacy - and a sense of humor points.
Dobbins - now the State Department special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan - Memories 2007 testimony to the U.S. Congress and then a deputy foreign minister how Zarif, persuaded anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan ministries outsize decline in the proportion of their needs.
Northern Alliance representatives "is still stubborn. Finally, Zarif took him aside and whispered to him a few minutes later, the Northern Alliance envoy back to the table and said:" Well, I agree. Other factions can have two ministries, we can create three more, they can have. "Dobbins recalled:" We have an agreement.
"Bar Reeve has made no final breakthrough (Hamid) Karzai government never may have formed."
 



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