DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday proposed former nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as the rustic’s new international minister and in addition sought to nominate a girl as roads and housing minister. If licensed, she could be Iran’s first feminine minister in additional than a decade.Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf learn out the checklist of proposed ministers to lawmakers. The hard-line-dominated chamber can have two weeks to study {qualifications} and provides a vote of self belief to the proposed ministers.Araghchi, 61, a occupation diplomat, used to be a member of the Iranian negotiating crew that reached a nuclear maintain international powers in 2015 that capped Tehran’s nuclear program in go back for the lifting of sanctions. In 2018, then-President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal and imposed extra sanctions on Iran. Pezeshkian mentioned all through his presidential marketing campaign that he would attempt to revive the nuclear deal.
Pezeshkian named Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh, an F-14 Tomcat pilot, as protection minister. He used to be leader of the Iranian Air Pressure in 2018-2021. This will be the first time {that a} member of Iran’s air pressure headed the protection ministry.
Pezeshkian proposed Farzaneh Sadegh as roads and housing minister. Sadegh, 47, is lately a director within the ministry. She would transform best the second one feminine minister in Iran because the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s unclear, on the other hand, whether or not she will likely be licensed. The hard-line parliament seeks extra cultural and social restrictions on girls in line with its interpretations of Islamic sharia. Many lawmakers voiced their opposition when her title used to be learn through the speaker all through Sunday’s consultation.
The one earlier feminine minister to be licensed through parliament because the revolution used to be in 2009, when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad secured a put up for Marzieh Vahid Dastgerdi as well being minister.
Iranian presidents have, on the other hand, appointed girls to be vice presidents, a job that isn’t topic to parliamentary approval. Closing week, Pezeshkian appointed Zahra Behrouz Azar as vice chairman in control of girls’s and circle of relatives affairs.The primary feminine minister in Iran’s historical past used to be Farrokroo Parsa, who served as training minister in 1968-1971. Innovative government carried out her after the 1979 revolution that ousted the pro-Western monarchy and brough Islamists to energy. Pezeshkian proposed Eskandar Momeni, a fairly reasonable police normal, as inside minister. The ministry offers with imposing the required dressed in of the Islamic veil on girls. In 2022, the demise of Mahsa Amini in police custody after she used to be arrested for fallacious dressed in of the hijab resulted in national protests.Pezeshkian, then a lawmaker, wrote on the time that it used to be “unacceptable within the Islamic Republic to arrest a woman for her hijab after which give up her useless frame to her circle of relatives.”He in feedback has recommended that he needs much less enforcement of the hijab regulation, in addition to higher family members with the West and a go back to the nuclear accord.The president is prone to face opposition in passing law that helps his said program, on the other hand, because the chamber is ruled through hard-liners who principally supported different applicants all through the June- July presidential election.
The president named Mohsen Paknejad as oil minister. Paknejad used to be previously a deputy oil minister.Pezeshkian additionally proposed to retain present Intelligence Minister Ismail Khatib and present Justice Minister Amin Hossein Rahimi. Pezeshkian additionally named the present minister of industries, Abbas Aliabadi, as power minister. On Saturday the president additionally reappointed Mohammad Eslami as leader of Iran’s civilian nuclear program and one in every of a number of vice presidents. All of them held their posts beneath President Ebrahim Raisi, who died along International Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahain in a Might helicopter crash.In a while Sunday, Mohammad Javad Zarif, a vice chairman in control of strategic affairs, resigned from his put up over the proposed ministers.Following Pezeshkian’s election, Zarif were charged with forming the committees to select ministers for Pezeshkian’s management.Zarif wrote at the social media platform “X” that he used to be no longer proud of how the composition of Pezeshkian’s Cupboard used to be shaping up, pronouncing he failed to satisfy his guarantees to incorporate extra girls, younger other people and ethnic teams.——This tale has been corrected to provide Sadegh’s age as 47, no longer 53.
