Publish Date: 28 December 2013 - 08:15

TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) – Efat Kashani, the mother of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, died on Friday.

Mrs. Kashani had been hospitalized for respiratory disease in a hospital in Tehran.
 
First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri issued a message in which he offered condolences to Zarif over the death of his mother.
 
In a statement on his Facebook page, the U.S. State Department's Persian-speaking spokesman, Alan Eyre, also offered his condolences to Zarif. 
 
Tehran Times and Mehr News Agency managing director and staff also offered condolences to Zarif over the death of his beloved mother.
 
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