President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration has lost two senior figures after finance minister Abdolnaser Hemmati was sacked by parliament and vice president for strategic affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned under pressure from the judiciary chief. The changes suggest hardline factions are flexing their political muscles at a time when the economy is under renewed strain from the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign.
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