The Jerusalem Post reports: “Zarif is gone – good riddance,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Tuesday after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif announced his resignation. Writing on Twitter, Netanyahu said that “as long as I’m around, Iran won’t get nuclear weapons.”
“Many thanks for the generosity of the dear and brave people of Iran and its authorities over the past 67 months,” Zarif wrote on his Instagram page jzarif_ir late Monday. “I sincerely apologize for the inability to continue serving and for all the shortcomings during my service. Be happy and worthy.”
He gave no specific reasons for his decision. Netanyahu and Zarif sparred at the 2018 Munich Security conference, when the prime minister brandished a piece of an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle the IDF had downed over the Golan Heights a week earlier.
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