Hours after meeting the American progressive, anti-war group Code Pink, Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, unexpectedly resigned his post. He made the announcement via an Instagram message Monday.

“I am apologizing to you for all the shortcomings … in the past years during my time as foreign minister. … I thank the Iranian nation and officials,” Zarif wrote in the Farsi-language post.

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