BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 21. All nominees (19 candidates) proposed by new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to the ministries have received a vote of confidence from the parliament, Trend reports.
The Iranian parliament voted on August 21 in favor of the candidates proposed by the Iranian president. Following the results of the vote, the ministers elected were:
Abbas Araghchi - Foreign Minister
Salehi-Amiri, Reza - Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicraft Industries
Zafarghandi, Mohammad-Reza - Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education
Eskandar Momeni - Minister of the Interior
Abdolnaser Hemmati - Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance
Ahmad Meydari - Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare
Alireza Kazemi - Minister of Education
Sattar Hashemi - Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Esmail Khatib - Minister of Intelligence (Security)
Gholamreza Nouri-Ghezeljeh - Minister of Agriculture
Amin-Hossein Rahimi -Minister of Justice
Aziz Nasirzadeh - Minister of Defense
Farzaneh Sadegh-Mavaljerd - Minister of Roads and Urban Development
Mohammad Atabak -Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade
Hossein Simaei-Sarraf - Minister of Science, Research and Technology
Abbas Salehi Shariati - Minister of Culture
Mohsen Paknejad - Minister of Oil
Abbas Aliabadi - Minister of Energy
Ahmad Donyamali - Minister of Sports and Youth
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