Designated Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif Hardliners in Iran are piling pressure on the country’s main nuclear negotiator and foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif , after he suggested that the US could destroy the country’s defence system “with one bomb”, leaving diplomacy as the only way to resolve the nuclear crisis. In a meeting with students at Tehran University last week, Mr Zarif defended the interim nuclear deal reached with six major powers – the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany – in Geneva last month and said the Islamic regime was not capable of military confrontation with the US. Domestic media reported on Monday that 20 hardline members of the 290-strong parliament have written to Hassan Rouhani , the centrist president, and urged him to “revise” his decision to appoint Mr Zarif as foreign minister. Hossein Naghavi, a spokesman for parliament’s national security committee, went further and […]