Happy Rosh Hashanah

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 5, 2013

@sfpelosi Iran never denied it. The man who was perceived to be denying it is now gone. Happy New Year.

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 5, 2013

Iran’s Foreign Minister Opens a Twitter Channel to the West
By Robert Mackey, The Lede @ nytimes.com, Sept. 5, 2013

Last Updated, 10:24 p.m. | Iran’s new foreign minister, the veteran diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif, formally took charge of the country’s nuclear negotiations on Thursday, but still managed to find time to reach out to the West through a more informal channel — his new Twitter account.

Plunging headfirst into public diplomacy, Mr. Zarif chose to open his dialogue with fellow users of the social network by extending greetings for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.

Later in the day, when his tweet was challenged by one skeptical reader — Representative Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine — the American-educated diplomat, who lived in the United States for three decades, made his message that the Ahmadinejad era was over even more explicit, insisting that the nation of Iran had never denied the Holocaust. As a screenshot of the exchange posted online by Ms. Pelosi showed, Mr. Zarif added, “the man who did is now gone,” before subsequently recasting that comment to offer a more charitable reading of stance taken by Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [....]