Iran president presents cabinet to parliament for approval
Published: 05:08 PM,Aug 11,2024 | EDITED : 09:08 PM,Aug 11,2024
Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at the parliament in Tehran. — Reuters file photo
TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian presented his cabinet to parliament on Sunday. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on state television.
For the post of foreign minister, Pezeshkian has named Abbas Araghchi, a 61-year-old career diplomat who has led nuclear negotiations since 2013.
Known for his openness to the West, he played a pivotal role in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that was torpedoed three years later by the United States' decision to withdraw from it.
Pezeshkian has also nominated one woman, Farzaneh Sadegh, who would become only the second Iranian woman to hold a ministerial post since the Islamic republic was established in 1979.
The reformist president has named as his future interior minister General Eskandar Momeni, a 60-year-old police commander and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
General Aziz Nasirzadeh, a former commander of the Iranian Air Force and deputy chief of staff of the armed forces since 2021, is set to take the helm of the defence ministry.
The president has chosen as his future oil minister Mohsen Paknezhad, a 58-year-old executive director with a long career in the country's energy industry.
Parliament is set to begin reviewing candidates on Monday and submit them to a vote by lawmakers starting on Saturday.
In late July, Pezeshkian had announced that he would 'consult and coordinate' with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to present the final list of ministers.
In Iran, the vote of confidence is performed by each minister individually, rather than the government as a whole.
On Saturday, the president kept in his position the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, who has held the post since 2021.
Eslami was placed on a sanctions list by the United States and the European Union in 2008, when he was deputy defence minister. Pezeshkian had advocated during the election campaign to open Iran up to the world, vowing to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement and ease sanctions on the Islamic republic. — AFP
For the post of foreign minister, Pezeshkian has named Abbas Araghchi, a 61-year-old career diplomat who has led nuclear negotiations since 2013.
Known for his openness to the West, he played a pivotal role in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that was torpedoed three years later by the United States' decision to withdraw from it.
Pezeshkian has also nominated one woman, Farzaneh Sadegh, who would become only the second Iranian woman to hold a ministerial post since the Islamic republic was established in 1979.
The reformist president has named as his future interior minister General Eskandar Momeni, a 60-year-old police commander and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
General Aziz Nasirzadeh, a former commander of the Iranian Air Force and deputy chief of staff of the armed forces since 2021, is set to take the helm of the defence ministry.
The president has chosen as his future oil minister Mohsen Paknezhad, a 58-year-old executive director with a long career in the country's energy industry.
Parliament is set to begin reviewing candidates on Monday and submit them to a vote by lawmakers starting on Saturday.
In late July, Pezeshkian had announced that he would 'consult and coordinate' with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to present the final list of ministers.
In Iran, the vote of confidence is performed by each minister individually, rather than the government as a whole.
On Saturday, the president kept in his position the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, who has held the post since 2021.
Eslami was placed on a sanctions list by the United States and the European Union in 2008, when he was deputy defence minister. Pezeshkian had advocated during the election campaign to open Iran up to the world, vowing to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement and ease sanctions on the Islamic republic. — AFP