Hassan Rouhani's New List Of Ministers Unveiled

Iran, Tehran Aug. 4 / Trend T. Jafarov /



Shortly after the swearing-in as the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani gave the new list of minister to the speaker of Iranian parliament Ali Larijani.



The list, which first would have to be approved by the Iranian parliament first, includes information about the new ministers, new programs of their ministries, and also various proposals of Rouhani's new cabinet.



Larijani evaluated Rouhani's step as a good symbol which shows the determination of the new president.



Below is a list of the people, who were in the list that Hassan Rouhani provided to Ali Larijani:



Minister of Defense - Hossein Dehghan



Former Deputy Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics during Mohammad Khatami's adminstration(1997 to 2005).



Minister of Information and Communication Technology - Mahmoud Vaezi



Adviser to Rouhani in his presidential campaign, former deputy foreign minister of Iran in Europe and American Countries Affairs.



Intelligence minister - Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi



Member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Former MP (four consecutive terms).



Minister of Justice - Mostafa Pourmohammadi



Head of Iran's general inspectorate office, former interior minister. Pourmohammadi was prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court from 1979 to 1986.



Minister of Science, Research and Technology - Jafar Nili Monfared



P.h.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering, former Deputy minister of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.



Interior Minister - Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli



Director of the Supreme Audit Court, former Deputy Head at Supreme National Security Council.



Oil Minister - Bijan Namdar Zangeneh



Former Oil and Energy minister under previous Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Hashemi Rafsanjani.



Ministrer of Economic Affairs and Finance - Ali Tayyebnia



Secretary of Economic Commission under previous Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Hashemi Rafsanjani.



Ministry of Agriculture - Mahmoud Hojjati



Former Minister of Roads and Transportation in first and Agriculture in second term of Khatami's presidency.



Minister of Foreign Affairs - Mohammad Javad Zarif



Former Permanent Representative of Iran to the UN.



Minister of Housing and Urban Development - Abbas Ahmad Akhondi



Former Minister of Housing and Urban Development (1993-1997).



Minister of Health and Medical Education - Hassan Hashemi



Secretary General of the Iranian Society of Ophthalmology.



Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance - Ali Jannati



Former Ambassador of Iran in Kuwait, son of Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (the head of Iranian Guardian Council).



Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports - Masoud Soltanifar



former Governor general of Gilan, Zanjan, and Markazi (Arak) provinces.



Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare - Ali Rabiee



advisor to former President Khatami(1997 to 2005) and Deputy of Rouhani in the Supreme National Security Council.



Energy minister - Hamid Chitchian



former Deputy Minister of Energy.



Minister of Education - Mohammad-Ali Najafi



Former Minister of Education in the cabinet of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of Center for Planning and Budget in the cabinet of Mohammad Khatami.



Industry, mining and trade minister: Mohammadreza Nematzadeh



Former minister of Industry and mining in the Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's administration (1989 to 1997). Also chaired Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, 2013.



The official ceremony of inauguration of new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been held today at 16: 00 (local time) in Tehran.



On August 3, Rouhani met with the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who officially endorsed Hassan Rohani as the country's new president for a four-year term.



On 14 June 2013, Hassan Rouhani won the presidential elections in Iran, gathering over 50 percent of total votes.