Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said that the leaked audio recording of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was stolen, and that President Hassan Rouhani ordered the Minister of Intelligence to find out who stole the file.

The spokesman described the theft of the audio file as "a conspiracy against the government, the Iranian regime and national interests."

Rabiei added that the government is awaiting Zarif's return to Iran to provide a statement about the leak.

 On Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry commented on the leaked audio file, in which Zarif referred to "Qassem Soleimani's control of the ministry," noting that Mukhtar came from a 7-hour internal conversation.

Earlier, the opposition Iran International website reported that it had obtained an audio file of the Iranian Foreign Minister in an interview that was to be published after the end of the current government, in which he referred to the interventions of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force, and that he “sacrificed diplomacy for the sake of the field operations of the Guard. Revolutionary. "