💠President Presents Cabinet Lineup to Majlis💠
Monday 12 August 2024Year 1959 Number 12323 / Kayhan English newspaper
💠President Presents Cabinet Lineup to Majlis💠
TEHRAN -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian nominated a former diplomat as foreign minister and a female official as urban development minister as he presented his new cabinet on Sunday.
Parliament speaker Muhammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on national television.
The parliament will begin a review of the nominees starting on Monday, and submit them to a vote by lawmakers starting Saturday.
In Iran, the vote of confidence is performed by each minister individually, rather than the government as a whole.
For foreign minister, Pezeshkian picked Abbas Araghchi, a 61-year-old career diplomat. Araghchi, who has extolled open, yet critical, talks with the West, served as the chief negotiator in nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers from 2013 to 2021.
He also served as Iran’s ambassador to Japan and Finland, and as a deputy of then-Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif, who was instrumental in reaching the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Farzaneh Sadegh was nominated as roads and urban development minister. If confirmed, the 48-year-old would become only the second Iranian woman to hold a ministerial post since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979, after Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi became health minister in 2009.
Last week, Pezeshkian appointed Zahra Behrouz Azar as vice president in charge of women’s and family affairs.
The appointment of the new cabinet comes as the world awaits Iran’s next move in response to the occupying regime of Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
General Aziz Nasirzadeh, a former commander of the Iranian Air Force and an F-14 Tomcat pilot, has been put forward to take the helm at the defense ministry. This would be the first time that a member of Iran’s air force headed the defense ministry.
The president named General Eskandar Momeni, a 60-year-old police commander and former member of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), as interior minister.
Mohsen Paknezhad, a 58-year-old executive director with a long career in the country’s energy industry has been tapped as minister of petroleum.
In late July, Pezeshkian had announced that he would “consult and coordinate” with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to present the final list of ministers.
The president also proposed to retain current Intelligence Minister Ismail Khatib and current Justice Minister Amin Hussein Rahimi. Pezeshkian also named the current minister of industries, Abbas Aliabadi, as energy minister.
On Saturday the president also reappointed Muhammad Eslami as chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and one of several vice presidents. They all held their posts under President Ebrahim Raisi, who lost his life alongside Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahain in a May helicopter crash.
Abdolnaser Hemmati was named for the ministry of economic affairs and finance. Hemmati is an academic, politician and economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from 2018 to 2021.
Hemmati ran as a candidate in the 2021 Iranian presidential election, but came a distant third in the race.
💠President Presents Cabinet Lineup to Majlis💠
TEHRAN -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian nominated a former diplomat as foreign minister and a female official as urban development minister as he presented his new cabinet on Sunday.
Parliament speaker Muhammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on national television.
The parliament will begin a review of the nominees starting on Monday, and submit them to a vote by lawmakers starting Saturday.
In Iran, the vote of confidence is performed by each minister individually, rather than the government as a whole.
For foreign minister, Pezeshkian picked Abbas Araghchi, a 61-year-old career diplomat. Araghchi, who has extolled open, yet critical, talks with the West, served as the chief negotiator in nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers from 2013 to 2021.
He also served as Iran’s ambassador to Japan and Finland, and as a deputy of then-Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif, who was instrumental in reaching the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Farzaneh Sadegh was nominated as roads and urban development minister. If confirmed, the 48-year-old would become only the second Iranian woman to hold a ministerial post since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979, after Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi became health minister in 2009.
Last week, Pezeshkian appointed Zahra Behrouz Azar as vice president in charge of women’s and family affairs.
The appointment of the new cabinet comes as the world awaits Iran’s next move in response to the occupying regime of Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
General Aziz Nasirzadeh, a former commander of the Iranian Air Force and an F-14 Tomcat pilot, has been put forward to take the helm at the defense ministry. This would be the first time that a member of Iran’s air force headed the defense ministry.
The president named General Eskandar Momeni, a 60-year-old police commander and former member of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), as interior minister.
Mohsen Paknezhad, a 58-year-old executive director with a long career in the country’s energy industry has been tapped as minister of petroleum.
In late July, Pezeshkian had announced that he would “consult and coordinate” with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to present the final list of ministers.
The president also proposed to retain current Intelligence Minister Ismail Khatib and current Justice Minister Amin Hussein Rahimi. Pezeshkian also named the current minister of industries, Abbas Aliabadi, as energy minister.
On Saturday the president also reappointed Muhammad Eslami as chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and one of several vice presidents. They all held their posts under President Ebrahim Raisi, who lost his life alongside Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahain in a May helicopter crash.
Abdolnaser Hemmati was named for the ministry of economic affairs and finance. Hemmati is an academic, politician and economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from 2018 to 2021.
Hemmati ran as a candidate in the 2021 Iranian presidential election, but came a distant third in the race.
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