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News ID: 51321
Publish Date : 18 March 2018 - 21:47

FM Zarif Briefly Hospitalized: Ministry

TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif was briefly hospitalized due to severe illness, the IRNA news agency cited a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying Sunday.
Zarif was hospitalized for a few hours on Saturday and cancelled all his meetings on Sunday so he could rest. The spokesman did not provide further details on his illness. Zarif was the lead negotiator in the talks leading up to the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers. He was briefly hospitalized with back pain in October 2013.