Ahmadinnejad's Cabinet

Iranian blogger, Hamid Ahadi, Rooz Online:

It is said that the list of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet and first names of the ministers is finally released after president's consecutive meetings with the leader and continuous consultation with head of the leader's office.

It is a list that is not entirely approved by any group but the so-called Abadgaran that enjoy 100 seats in the parliament. Four names among Ahmadinejad's list are the most known and experienced among other names that are unknown and were mentioned by their first names. READ MORE

Mohammad Saeedi kia and Rahmati that held Ministry of Transportation posts in Rafsanjani and Khatami's cabinets and Mohseni Ejei and Pour Mohammadi are the only two clerics in the cabinet list nominated from ministry of intelligence and interior. Rahmati, now the minister of transportation seems to be the only Khatami's minister to keep the post. Mohseni Ejei and Pour Mohammadi are the notorious figures of Haghani School and are known as security and intelligence figures are the final known names of Ahmadinejad's cabinet.

The reformists believe that return of Pourmahmmadi is a radical option and is considered as a return to Fallahian's era when serial murders happened under his reign that held minister of the intelligence post. Pourmohammadi, the former deputy intelligence minister and a close ally of Saeed Emami the master mind behind the serial killings of intellectuals and writers were among the first figures that were eliminated from the ministry once Khatami came to power.

Mohseni Ejeie, is the notorious judge for the trial of Gholam Hussein Karbaschi, Tehran's former mayor used to have tendencies towards moderate members of the left-wing party and close to Karrubi but his role in Karbaschi's trial and press crackdown turned him into a judicial crisis for Khatami's government. This is the first of 28 cabinets introduced since Iran's revolution that around 260 ministers were introduced in the last 26 years; no other cabinet has been as anonymous and unknown as Ahmadinejad's list.

Based on the latest information release after a month of liaison and consultation with senior political officials, list of Ahmadinejad's cabinet ministers are as following:

Labor: Jahromi
Finance: Danesh Jafari
Commerce: Pourkazemi
Health: Lankarani
Telecommunications: Mohammad Soleiman
iCooperation: Abdolreza Mesri
Agriculture: Mohammad Reza Eskandari
Justice: Jamal Karimi Rad
Defence: Mostafa Mohammad Najar
Intelligence: Mohseni Ejei
Culture: Saffar Harandi
Interior: Mostafa PourMohammadi
Housing: Saeedi Kia
Electricity: Parviz Fattah
Education: Ashaar
iForeign Affairs: Motaki
Transportation: Rahmati
Industry: Tahmasebi
Oil: Saeedlou
Welfare: Mehdi Hashemi