Iran Gets 1st Female Minister In Over A Decade After Parliament Approves Pezeshkian's Cabinet

Among the 19 names presented to the Parliament, Aziz Nasirzadeh, the new defence minister received the maximum amount of votes. Before his stint of the new defence minister, Nasirzadeh served as the chief of the Iranian air force from 2018 to 2021.

Early Win For Pezeshkian

The cabinet approval marks an early win for the Iranian president. Pezeshkian found himself catapulted into the presidency after a helicopter crash killed former President Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Parliament approval for Pezeshkian's cabinet shows that the heart surgeon-turned-president picked a cabinet of consensus. Showing the same, Pezeshkian posted a picture on social media with Iran's judiciary chief, a Shiite cleric, and Iran's parliament speaker captions "consensus for Iran".

Pezeshkian's 19-Member Cabinet | Full List

1. Ahmad Meidari - Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare Minister

2. Seyed Abbas Saleh Shariati - Culture and Guidance Minister

3. Mohammadreza Salehi Amiri - Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Minister

4. Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh - Department of Agriculture Minister

5. Aziz Nasirzadeh - Defence and Armed Forces Logistics Minister

6. Alireza Kazemi - Education Minister

7. Abdolnaser Hemmati - Economic and Finance Affairs Minister

8. Abbas Aliabadi - Energy Minister

9. Abbas Araghchi - Foreign Affairs Minister

10. Mohammadreza Zafarghandi - Health and Medical Education Minister

11. Sattar Hashemi - Information and Communications Technology Minister

12. Mohammad Atabak - Industry, Mine and Trade Minister

13. Seyed Esmaeil - Intelligence Minister

14. Eskandar Momeni - Interior Minister

15. Amin Hossein Rahimi - Justice Minister

16. Mohsen Paknejad - Petroleum Minister

17. Farzaneh Sadegh Malvajerd - Roads and Urban Development Minister

18. Hossein Simayi Sarraf - Science, Research and Technology Minister

19. Ahmad Donyamali - Sport and Youth Minister

Iran Gets 1st Female Minister In Over A Decade

Among the 19 names of the new Iranina cabinet, is Farzaneh Sadegh. Sadegh will take over as the new Housing and Roads Minister. The 47-year-old architect, received 231 votes and is now the first female minister in Iran in more than a decade.

Before this , Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi was appointed as the health minister of Iran in 2009. Dastjerdi was confirmed in the cabinet despite opposition from hardline MPs and clerics who had managed to block the nomination of two other women for the education ministry and the welfare and social security ministry.