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  "ar": "محمد جواد ظريف",
  "en": "Mohammad Javad Zarif",
  "ur": "محمد جواد ظریف"
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  "ar": "محمد جواد ظريف (وُلد 7 كانون الثاني 1960) دبلوماسي وأكاديمي إيراني، سفير بلاده لدى الأمم المتحدة 2002–2007، ووزير خارجيتها من 15 آب 2013 إلى 25 آب 2021 في حكومة حسن روحاني حيث قاد المفاوضات التي أنتجت الاتفاق النووي سنة 2015، ثم نائب الرئيس للشؤون الاستراتيجية من آب 2024 إلى آذار 2025.",
  "en": "Mohammad Javad Zarif (born 7 January 1960) is an Iranian diplomat and academic: ambassador to the United Nations 2002–2007, foreign minister from 15 August 2013 to 25 August 2021 under Hassan Rouhani, where he led the negotiations that produced the 2015 nuclear agreement, and vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025."
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   "note": "Born at Tehran. The day is contested between the editions: the Persian article gives 17 Dey 1338, the Arabic article gives 7 January 1960 citing the foreign ministry biography, the Urdu infobox gives 7 January 1960, and Wikidata gives 7 January 1960; the English article alone gives 8 January 1960. The majority reading (7 January) is carried, with the English variant stated. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion from the carried date. No born_in relation is written: Tehran has no museum place entity.",
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    "value": "Mohammad Javad Zarif Khansari",
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   "note": "Born at Tehran. The day is contested between the editions: the Persian article gives 17 Dey 1338, the Arabic article gives 7 January 1960 citing the foreign ministry biography, the Urdu infobox gives 7 January 1960, and Wikidata gives 7 January 1960; the English article alone gives 8 January 1960. The majority reading (7 January) is carried, with the English variant stated. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion from the carried date. No born_in relation is written: Tehran has no museum place entity.",
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    "note": "No article text names his school or affiliation. The Persian text says he was born into a religious, conservative and wealthy family — family background, which never attests the person's own affiliation — and cites a 2014 New Republic piece whose headline calls him a religious zealot, a political characterisation rather than a naming of a school. The Arabic infobox gives his religion as Islam and his sect as the Shia in general; the Urdu infobox gives his religion as Twelver Shia; Wikidata carries Shia Islam in general (Q9585) and no branch. These infobox and structured values are one family, not two independent texts, so on the lane's two-source rule and the Shia-mapping rule the value stays unknown, with the readings preserved here.",
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   "source": "Built 27 October 2026 for wave 101 §A of the century-additions queue (queue line 554) from the English, Persian, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles and the Wikidata item named in the sources list, each fetched by the recorded revision and asserted equal to it, the Wikidata item read twice with identical results and its QID grounded through the English article's pageprops (after resolving the redirect from 'Javad Zarif' to 'Mohammad Javad Zarif') and confirmed through every edition's pageprops. Existence checked both ways before building: name-fragment and slug-variant greps across data/person/ found no record for him (the zarif matches are classical namesakes, al-Shab al-Zarif and Çorlulu Zarifi), and his Q10296812 appears in no existing person record. No relations are written: no succession applies in this group, his named predecessor and successor as foreign minister and his spouse have no museum records, and Tehran has no place entity. The faith segment stays unknown on one infobox/structured family, the readings preserved in the faith note. He is recorded as living; no edition reports a death.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نشأته وتعليمه",
     "markdown": "وُلد في طهران في أسرة تاجر ثرية — تصفها المقالتان الفارسية والعربية بأنها متدينة ومحافظة، وهو وصف لنشأته لا لانتمائه الشخصي. غادر إلى الولايات المتحدة في السابعة عشرة، ودرس في جامعة ولاية سان فرانسيسكو، ثم نال ماجستيرًا ثانيًا ودكتوراه في القانون الدولي والسياسة من جامعة دنفر سنة 1988 بأطروحة عن الدفاع عن النفس في القانون الدولي. {cite:wikipedia-zarif-en} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ar}"
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    {
     "heading": "مسيرته",
     "markdown": "تولى منصب نائب وزير الخارجية للشؤون القانونية والدولية من 1992 إلى 2002، والممثل الدائم لدى الأمم المتحدة من 2002 إلى 2007. وبصفته وزيرًا للخارجية من 15 آب 2013 إلى 25 آب 2021 قاد الجانب الإيراني في المفاوضات مع مجموعة 5+1 التي أنتجت خطة العمل الشاملة المشتركة في 14 تموز 2015. رُفضت استقالته في شباط 2019 فبقي في منصبه. وفي آب 2024 عاد إلى الحكومة نائبًا للرئيس للشؤون الاستراتيجية في حكومة بزشكيان، وترك المنصب في آذار 2025. {cite:wikipedia-zarif-en} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دينه",
     "markdown": "يُسجَّل دينه غير معروف. فلا نصّ في أي مقالة يسمّي له مذهبًا أو انتماء: وصف المقالة الفارسية أسرته بالمتدينة هو خلفية عائلية، وعبارة «متعصب ديني» التي تستشهد بها عنوان مقال رأي من 2014. ويعطي صندوق هذه المقالة دينه الإسلام وطائفته الشيعة عمومًا، ويعطي صندوق المقالة الأردية الشيعة الاثني عشرية، ويحمل ويكي بيانات الشيعة عمومًا فقط — وهي أسرة واحدة من الصناديق والبيانات المنظمة، لا تسجّل قيمة وفق قاعدة المصدرين في المتحف؛ والقراءات محفوظة في سجل بياناته. {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ar} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ur} {cite:wikidata-zarif} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- ترجمات وتعديلات لاحقة للمقال تحتاج إلى مراجعة دورية مع تواريخ تحديث واضحة."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "Zarif was born in Tehran into a wealthy merchant family — the Persian and Arabic articles describe the family as religious and conservative, a description of his background rather than of his own affiliation. Sent to the United States at seventeen, he studied at San Francisco State University and took a second master's and a doctorate in international law and policy at the University of Denver, completed in 1988 with a thesis on self-defence in international law. {cite:wikipedia-zarif-en} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "He served as deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs from 1992 to 2002 and as permanent representative to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007. As foreign minister from 15 August 2013 to 25 August 2021 he led the Iranian side of the negotiations with the P5+1 that produced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action of 14 July 2015. His February 2019 resignation was rejected and he remained in post. In August 2024 he returned to government as vice president for strategic affairs under President Pezeshkian, leaving that post in March 2025. {cite:wikipedia-zarif-en} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Religion",
     "markdown": "His faith is recorded as unknown. No article text names a school or affiliation for him: the Persian text's description of his family as religious is family background, and the \"religious zealot\" phrase it cites is the headline of a 2014 opinion piece. The Arabic infobox gives his religion as Islam and his sect as the Shia in general, the Urdu infobox gives Twelver Shia, and Wikidata carries Shia Islam in general only — a single infobox and structured-data family, which under the museum's two-source rule does not record a value; the readings are preserved on his data record. {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ar} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ur} {cite:wikidata-zarif} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa}"
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    {
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     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ تہران میں ایک دولت مند تاجر خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے — فارسی اور عربی مقالے خاندان کو مذہبی اور قدامت پسند بیان کرتے ہیں، جو ان کے اپنے انتماء کی بجائے ان کے پس منظر کی صفت ہے۔ سترہ سال کی عمر میں وہ امریکہ گئے، سان فرانسسکو اسٹیٹ یونیورسٹی میں پڑھے، اور ڈینور یونیورسٹی سے بین الاقوامی قانون و پالیسی میں دوسری ماسٹرز اور 1988ء میں ڈاکٹریٹ حاصل کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-zarif-en} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کیریئر",
     "markdown": "وہ 1992ء سے 2002ء تک قانونی و بین الاقوامی امور کے نائب وزیرِ خارجہ اور 2002ء سے 2007ء تک اقوام متحدہ میں مستقل مندوب رہے۔ 15 اگست 2013ء سے 25 اگست 2021ء تک وزیرِ خارجہ کی حیثیت سے انہوں نے P5+1 کے ساتھ مذاکرات میں ایرانی فریق کی قیادت کی، جن سے 14 جولائی 2015ء کا مشترکہ جامع منصوبۂ عمل نکلا۔ فروری 2019ء میں ان کا استعفٰی مسترد ہوا اور وہ عہدے پر رہے۔ اگست 2024ء میں وہ صدر پزشکیان کے تحت نائب صدر برائے اسٹریٹجک امور بنے اور مارچ 2025ء میں یہ عہدہ چھوڑا۔ {cite:wikipedia-zarif-en} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہب",
     "markdown": "ان کا مذہب نامعلوم درج ہے۔ کسی مقالے کا متن ان کے لیے کوئی مکتب یا انتماء نام نہیں لیتا: فارسی متن کا ان کے خاندان کو مذہبی کہنا خاندانی پس منظر ہے، اور «مذہبی متعصب» کی عبارت جس کا وہ حوالہ دیتا ہے 2014ء کے ایک رائے مضمون کا عنوان ہے۔ عربی معلوماتی خانہ ان کا دین اسلام اور فرقہ عمومی شیعہ دیتا ہے، اردو معلوماتی خانہ شیعہ اثنا عشریہ دیتا ہے، اور ویکی ڈیٹا صرف عمومی شیعہ اسلام رکھتا ہے — یہ معلوماتی خانوں اور منظم ڈیٹا کا ایک ہی خاندان ہے، جو عجائب گھر کے دو ماخذ والے قاعدے کے تحت کوئی قدر درج نہیں کرتا؛ قراءتیں ان کے ڈیٹا ریکارڈ میں محفوظ ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ar} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-ur} {cite:wikidata-zarif} {cite:wikipedia-zarif-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے متعین ماخذ، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر نظرثانی تاریخ کے ساتھ ہو، اور بتائے کہ کس ماخذ کی بنیاد پر کون سی بات بدلی گئی۔"
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