Parliament Gives Vote of Confidence to All Proposed Ministers

According to SAEDNEWS, Speaking to reporters after attending the last day of reviewing the qualifications of his picks for the ministerial posts yesterday, President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed hope that the lawmakers in the parliament will give the vote of confidence to all his proposed ministers in today's session.

The parliament began debating the qualifications of the proposed ministers last Saturday and the reviewing sessions lasted for days until yesterday (Tuesday.)

Pezeshkian submitted a list of his ministerial picks to the Iranian parliament on August 11, almost two weeks after his swearing-in ceremony.

The following are the latest on today's vote of confidence session:

All cabinet ministers win Iranian parliament’s vote of confidence:

All the proposed ministers received the vote of confidence from the parliament.

Abbass Araghchi with 244 votes became the next Iranian foreign minister. Abolnasser Hemmati became next economy minister with 192 votes.

Hojja al-Eslam Khatib, the nominee for the intelligence ministry received 261 yes votes.

The following is the list of the ministers who all received the yes votes from the lawmakers:

Alireza Kazemi for Ministry of Education: 268 yes votes

Sattar Hashemi for Ministry of Communication & Information Technology: 268 yes votes

Seyyed Esmaeil Khatib for the Ministry of Intelligence: 261 yes votes

Abdolnaser Hemmati Ehsan Khandouzi for Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance: 192 yes votes

Seyyed Abbas Araghchi for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 244 yes votes

Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi for Ministry of Health and Medical Education: 163 yes votes

Ahmad Meydari for the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare: 191 yes votes

Gholamreza Nouri Ghezelcheh for Ministry of Agriculture Jihad: 253 yes votes

Amin Hossein Rahmi for Ministry of Justice: 268 yes votes

Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh for the Ministry of Defense: 281 yes votes

Farzaneh Sadegh for Ministry of Roads and Urban Development: 230 yes votes

Mohammad Atabak for Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade: 231 yes votes

Hossein Simaei Sarraf for Ministry of Science, Research and Technology: 219 yes votes

Seyyed Abbas Salehi for Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance: 271 yes votes

Eskandar Momeni for Ministry of Interior: 259 yes votes

Mohammad Reza Salehi Amiri for Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts: 168 yes votes

Mohsen Paknejad for Ministry of Petroleum: 222 yes votes

Abbas Aliabadi for the Ministry of Energy

Ahmad Donyamali for the Ministry of Sport and Youth: 253 yes votes

At the start of today's session on giving vote of confidence, the new Iranian president reiterated his insistence on collaboration and cooperation between his administration and Parliament.

Parliament's session on vote of confidence kicks off

"I will consider parliament's pieces of advice on my decisions," Pezeshkian said.

He called for unity and demanded the lawmakers set aside their differences.

Addressing the session, the speaker Mohammad Bagheri Ghalibaf said that as many as 285 lawmakers were present for the vote of confidence in the parliament. He called on the President to leave the session in order for the MPs to cast their votes.