Tehran, August 20, 09 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented a full list of his new ministers to the Majlis - the Iranian Parlament - on late Wednesday. There are three woman ministers among the 21 names announced.  The Majlis will have a week to assess their qualifications.

 

Seven of the ministers have remained the same from the previous cabinet. Those include - Foreign Minister Manouchehr Motaki, Economy Minister Mohammad Hosseini, Defense Minister Mostafa Najar. 

 

The complete list of the ministerial nominees is as follows:

 

1. Sousan Keshavarz: education minister

      --PhD in philosophy of education and deputy education minister

 

2. Reza Taqipour: communications minister

      -- MS in industrial engineering and former managing director of Iran’s telecommunication industries company

 

3: Haidar Moslehi: intelligence minister

      --Supreme Leader’s representative to Revolutionary Guards Corps and National Charity Organization director

 

4: Shamsodin Hosseini: economy minister

- Economy minister in the ninth administration, PhD in economy, secretary of economic reform plan’s working group and head of administration’s economic committee

 

5: Manouchehr Mottaki: foreign minister

      --Foreign minister in the ninth administration, MP in the first and the seventh Majlis, former ambassador to Japan and Turkey, and former deputy foreign minister for international affairs

 

6: Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi: health minister

      --Gynaecologist, MP in the fourth and fifth Majlis

 

7: Mohammad Abbasi: cooperative minister

      -- Cooperative minister in the ninth administration, PhD in management, and MP in the seventh Majlis

 

8: Sadeq Khalilian: agriculture minister

      --PhD in economy of natural resource, a faculty member of Tarbiat Modares University, and deputy agriculture minister

 

9: Hamid Behbahani: transport minister

      --Transport minister in the ninth administration, PhD in civil engineering and former head of Civil Engineering College of Iran, University of Science and Technology

 

10: Fateme Ajorlou: welfare and social security minister

   -- MP in the sitting and previous parliament and PhD student in educational psychology

 

11: Ali Akbar Mehrabian: industries and mines minister

      --Minister of industries and mines in the ninth administration and former presidential advisor

 

12: Kamran Daneshjou: science minister

      --PhD in Aerospace, deputy interior minister, Interior Ministry election commissioner in the June presidential election, former governor general of Tehran

 

13: Mohammad Hosseini: culture and Islamic guidance minister 

      --A faculty member of the University of Tehran, MP in the fifth Majlis and former deputy science minister

 

14: Abdolreza Sheikholeslami: labor minister 

      --PhD in civil engineering, former presidential advisor and head of presidential office, and faculty member of Iran University of Science and Technology

 

15: Mostafa Mohammad Najar: interior minister

      -- Defense minister in the ninth administration and holds an MA in administrative management

 

16: Ali Nikzad: housing and urban development minister

--Ardebil governor general and head of Housing and Urban Development Organization of Ardabil Province

 

17: Masoud Mirkazemi: oil minister

      -- Commerce minister in the ninth administration, PhD in industrial engineering, and Shahed University chancellor

 

18: Mohammad Ali-Abadi: energy minister

      --Vice president and head of Physical Education Organization in the ninth administration

 

19: Morteza Bakhtiari: justice minister

      --Isfahan governor general and a former director of the State Prisons Organization (SPO)

 

20: Ahmad Vahidi: defense minister

      -- Deputy defense minister and chairman of the Expediency Council political and defense committee; and

 

21: Mahdi Qazanfari: commerce minister

      --Deputy commerce minister and director of the Trade Development Organization of Iran.

 

 

Source: Agencies

August 20, 2009