The president introduced the names of the brand new 19-member cupboard, together with one lady. File | Picture credit score: AP
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian introduced his cupboard to parliament on Sunday (11 August 2024), notably together with a lady and a Western-friendly diplomat because the nation’s international minister.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf introduced the names of the 19-member Cupboard introduced by the President throughout an Meeting session broadcast stay on state tv.
For the publish of international minister, Mr. Pezeshkian appointed Abbas Araghchi, a 61-year-old profession diplomat who has led nuclear negotiations since 2013.
Identified for his openness to the West, he performed a pivotal function within the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, which was torpedoed three years later by the US choice to withdraw from it.
Mr. Pezeshkian has additionally nominated a lady, Farzaneh Sadegh, who would turn into solely the second Iranian lady to carry a ministerial publish for the reason that Islamic Republic was established in 1979. The 48-year-old will head the Ministry of Roads and City Improvement.
The reformist president has named Basic Eskandar Momeni, a 60-year-old police commander and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as his future inside minister.
Basic Aziz Nasirzadeh, former commander of the Iranian Air Drive and deputy chief of employees of the Armed Forces since 2021, will take over the helm of the Ministry of Protection.
The president has chosen as his future oil minister Mohsen Paknezhad, a 58-year-old chief government with a protracted profession within the nation’s power trade.
Parliament is scheduled to start reviewing the candidates on Monday (11 August 2024) and put them to a vote by lawmakers beginning on Saturday (10 August 2024).
In late July, Pezeshkian had introduced that he would “seek the advice of and coordinate” with Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the ultimate say on all state issues, to current the ultimate listing of ministers. In Iran, the vote of confidence is carried out by every minister individually, and never by the federal government as a complete.
On Saturday (August 10, 2024), the president stored in workplace the top of Iran’s Atomic Vitality Group, Mohammad Eslami, who had held the place since 2021.
Mr Eslami was positioned on a sanctions listing by the USA and the European Union in 2008, when he was deputy defence minister.
Pezeshkian, who took workplace in late July, had advocated throughout the election marketing campaign for opening Iran to the world, promising to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and ease sanctions towards the Islamic republic.
However the president has restricted powers and is tasked with implementing state insurance policies outlined by Ayatollah Khamenei, 85, who has held the publish since 1989.
