Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif Resigns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Zarif's children were born in the United States when he was part of Iran's mission to the United Nations, so they are naturalized American citizens who hold U.S. passports.
44% : Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned on Sunday evening, strongly implying in his resignation letter that he was forced out by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni and other theocratic hardliners. Zarif, 65, was Iran's foreign minister from 2013 to 2021 and served as Iran's lead negotiator for the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
24% : Hemmati's wing of Iranian politics argued that heavy sanctions imposed after President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA, coupled with Iran's devastating losses in Syria and Lebanon during the Gaza conflict, made it impossible to reduce inflation without developing better relations with the U.S. and Europe.

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