Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said that US policy towards Tehran will not change even if Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned.

Zarif, who has been heading the Iranian Foreign Ministry since 2013, earlier in the day announced via Instagram that he was leaving his post. Media reported that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had accepted the minister’s resignation although Rouhani’s chief of staff denied the reports.

“We note @JZarif’s resignation,” Pompeo said in a Twitter post on Monday. “We’ll see if it sticks… Our policy is unchanged — the regime must behave like a normal country and respect its people.”

Pompeo added that, either way, Rouhani and Zarif are simply front men and that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “makes all final decisions.”

Source: Sputnik