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 TEHRAN – The following is a list of possible nominees in the cabinet of President-elect Hassan Rohani.
The list includes ministerial posts as well as vice presidents, advisors, head of the Atomic Energy Organization, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and governor of the central bank.
According to an informed source except a few persons whose inclusion in cabinet is certain the others are subject to change.
Rohani has said that he will introduce his cabinet to Majlis on August 4, the day that he is sworn in as president in parliament.
Following is the list:
First vice president: Es’haq Jahangiri (industries and mines minister in administrations of Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami)
Interior minister: Abdolreza Rahmani Fazil (current head of the Supreme Audit Court Chairman)
Oil minister: Bijan Zanganeh (energy minister in Rafsanjani’s administration and oil minister in Khatami’s administration)
Intelligence minister: Hojjatoleslam Mohsen Qomi
Economy minister: Ali Tayebnia (economics professor)
Agriculture minister: Mahmoud Hojati (agriculture minister in Khatami’s second administration)
Science minister: Jafar Meili Monfared (engineering professor at Amirkabir University of Technology and former deputy science minister)
Foreign minister: Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran’s former representative to the United Nations and deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs)
Transport and urban development minister: Abbas Akhondi (housing minister in president Rafsanjani’s cabinet)
Health minister: Seyyed Hassan Hashemi (ophthalmologist)
Communications minister: Seyyed Abolhassan Firouzabadi
Culture and Islamic guidance minister: Ali Jannati (former Iran’s ambassador to Kuwait and governor of Khorasan and Khuzestan provinces)
Education minister: Mohammad Ali Najafi (a current Tehran city councilor, head of the Management and Planning Organization in Khatami’s administration, education minister in Rafsanjani’s administration, and science minister in prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi’s administration)
Industries, mines and commerce minister: Mohammadreza Nematzadeh (minister of industries in Rafsanjani’s administration)
Labor Minister: Ali Rabiei (former executive director of the secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council and social advisor to president Khatami)
Defense minister: Hossein Dehqan (a former deputy defense minister and director of the Martyrs Foundation)
Minister of sports and youth affairs: Masoud Soltanifar (former governor of Gilan Province)
Energy minister: Hamid Chitchian (former MP and deputy energy minister in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration)
Chairman of president’s office: Hossein Fereidoun (brother of President-elect Hassan Rohani)
Management and Planning Organization chief: Mohammad Baqer Nobakht (head of the economic committee of the Expediency Council and former parliamentarian)
Supreme National Security Council secretary: Mohammad Forouzandeh (defense minister in Rafsanjani’s second administration)
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) chief: Mahmoud Va’ezi (head of the foreign policy committee of the Expediency Council)
Senior presidential advisor: Akbar Torkan (defense and transport minister in Rafsanjani’s administrations)
Central bank governor: Majid Qasemi (current chairman of Bank Pasargad and chief of the macro-economic committee of the Expediency Council)
Special assistant to president: Mohammad Nahavandian (the current chairman of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce)
Head of the presidential center for women’s affairs: Mrs. Dad-Andish
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