DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday proposed former nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi because the nation’s new overseas minister and likewise sought to nominate a girl as roads and housing minister. If accredited, she can be Iran’s first feminine minister in additional than a decade.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf learn out the record of proposed ministers to lawmakers. The hard-line-dominated chamber may have two weeks to overview {qualifications} and provides a vote of confidence to the proposed ministers.
Araghchi, 61, a profession diplomat, was a member of the Iranian negotiator crew that reached a nuclear cope with world powers in 2015 that capped Tehran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting sanctions.
In 2018, then-President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal and imposed extra sanctions on Iran. Pezeshkian stated throughout 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 was chief of the Iranian Air Power in 2018-2021. This might be the primary time {that a} member of Iran’s air pressure headed the protection ministry.
Pezeshkian proposed Farzaneh Sadegh as roads and housing minister. Sadegh, 53, is presently a director within the ministry. She would turn into solely the second feminine minister in Iran because the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s unclear, nevertheless, whether or not she can be accredited. The hard-line parliament seeks extra cultural and social restrictions on ladies based mostly on its interpretations of Islamic sharia. Many lawmakers voiced their opposition when her identify was learn by the speaker throughout Sunday’s session.
The one earlier feminine minister to be accredited by parliament because the revolution was in 2009, when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad secured a put up for Marzieh Vahid Dastgerdi as well being minister.
Iranian presidents have, nevertheless, appointed ladies to be vice presidents, a job that’s not topic to parliamentary approval. Final week, Pezeshkian appointed Zahra Behrouz Azar as vp answerable for ladies’s and household affairs.
The primary feminine minister in Iran’s historical past was Farrokroo Parsa, who served as schooling minister in 1968-1971. Revolutionary authorities executed her after the 1979 revolution that ousted the pro-Western monarchy and brough Islamists to energy.
Pezeshkian proposed Eskandar Momeni, a comparatively average police common, as inside minister. The ministry offers with implementing the necessary carrying of the Islamic veil on ladies. In 2022, the loss of life of Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was arrested for improper carrying of the hijab led to nationwide protests.
Pezeshkian, then a lawmaker, wrote on the time that it was “unacceptable within the Islamic Republic to arrest a lady for her hijab after which hand over her useless physique to her household.”
He in feedback has urged that he needs much less enforcement of the hijab regulation, in addition to higher relations with the West and a return to the nuclear accord.
The president is more likely to face opposition in passing laws that helps his said program, nevertheless, because the chamber is dominated by hard-liners who primarily supported different candidates through the June- July presidential election.
The president named Mohsen Paknejad as oil minister. Paknejad was 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 vitality minister. On Saturday the president additionally reappointed Mohammad Eslami as chief of Iran’s civilian nuclear program and one in every of a number of vice presidents. All of them held their posts underneath President Ebrahim Raisi, who died alongside Overseas Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahain in a Might helicopter crash.
