The Iranian parliament has confirmed that it has acquired President Massoud Pezechkian’s listing of cupboard nominees, which incorporates former chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as potential overseas minister.
According to the listing printed by the state-run Iran News Agency, there are not any Sunni ministers among the many candidates, regardless of Pezeshkian’s promise to incorporate non-Shiite ministers in his cupboard, nevertheless it does embrace a girl, Farzaneh Sadegh, as a candidate for the Ministry of Roads and Transport. The common age of the ministers is 60, in distinction to Pezeshkian’s earlier promise to kind a “younger” cupboard.
Some reformers say they’re deeply disillusioned with Pezeshkian’s proposed cupboard composition.
“Pezzechkian failed the primary take a look at, with just a few exceptions. [where his nominees are acceptable]”This is a failed presidential election,” tweeted Parvaneh Sarashli, a former reformist lawmaker. She argued that the candidates have been chosen not for his or her {qualifications}, experience or the recommendation of a council shaped to pick out one of the best candidates, however below strain from others “demanding a share” and people “overtly interfering.” “Global expertise exhibits that such governments can’t final,” she wrote.
“There just isn’t a niche however a gulf between the federal government Pezeshkian has introduced and what was anticipated of his authorities. But I’m nonetheless hopeful. [because] “I did not vote for Pezeshkian for an excellent cupboard or for progress and evolution,” outstanding reformist commentator Sadegh Zibakaram wrote on X, including that he solely voted for Pezeshkian to cease hardliners and ultra-hardliners who name themselves “revolutionaries” from ousting everybody else and “cleaning” the political system.
Pezeshkian named Abdolnaser Hemmati, a former governor of Iran’s central financial institution and a 2021 presidential candidate backed by some reformists, as financial system minister. Hemmati has beforehand criticized the federal government’s financial efficiency over the previous three years, throughout which the central financial institution applied inflationary insurance policies and considerably devalued the nation’s forex, the rial.
President Pezechkian selected Mohsen Pakzad, who served as deputy oil minister below President Hassan Rouhani, as oil minister.
Prime Minister Pezechkian additionally reinstated Abbas Aliabadi, who served as vitality minister in Raisi’s authorities, to deal with the intense challenges associated to vitality shortages, together with electrical energy.
Pezechkian has nominated Ahmad Midari, a veteran economist and former reformist lawmaker, to go the Labor Ministry. Midari, who appeared in election debates as Pezechkian’s financial adviser, is more likely to face sturdy opposition from parliament.
Pezeshkian’s nominee for intelligence minister is Esmail Khatib, the U.S. appointee to the place below Ebrahim Raisi. Khatib has sturdy ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence service and held numerous senior positions there earlier in his profession.
Political analysts in Tehran advised Iran International that Pezeshkian’s proposed listing seems to be a “compromise cupboard” with concessions in key ministries such because the ministries of the inside, intelligence, schooling, sports activities, Islamic steerage and vitality.
These concessions could also be supposed to safe a vote of confidence for the reformist ministers proposed for the ministries of overseas affairs, labor, financial system, communications, and well being, thereby sustaining help from the reformist base.
To head the well being ministry, Pezeshkian selected Dr. Mohammad Reza Zafargandi, chairman of Iran’s nongovernmental Medical Council and a reformist identified for the council’s advocacy and regulatory work.
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, presently deputy chief of employees of the armed forces, has been nominated for protection minister. Pezechkian additionally advisable Brigadier General Eskander Momeni, a former deputy chief of the regulation enforcement forces, for inside minister, a selection that has raised considerations amongst reformists who’re cautious of appointing army personnel to the inside ministry.
At least one ministerial put up was allotted to an aide of Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf: Ahmad Dunhamari, a former lawmaker who served as Ghalibaf’s deputy in Tehran, was named sports activities minister.
Sattar Hashemi, one of many youthful candidates within the proposed cupboard, would head the communications ministry and, if accredited by parliament, would face the daunting activity of tackling web filtering, a key situation that Pezechkian promised to deal with throughout his election marketing campaign.