Tehran: Iranian President Ebrahim Relisi on Wednesday serves his cabinet to Parliament, said the country’s media, nominating a conservative as his top diplomat in the midst of talks with nuclear power to save a nuclear agreement.
The list issued by the government on Twitter shows that the Conservative Dominated Minister’s Cabinet, the man who will be officially announced by parliament on Saturdays.
The Iranian parliament, which is currently dominated by conservatives, was charged with validating the ministerial candidate line-up.
UltraConservative last week replaced Hassan Rouhani, a moderate man whose importance during the presidency of two terms was the 2015 agreement that provided Iran’s assistance from sanctions in return on the nuclear program.
Former US President Donald Trump menored the agreement three years later with unilaterally interesting the United States from him and forcing destructive sanctions.
Tapped to lead the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is 56 years Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, described by country television as “prestigious diplomats from the resistance axis”.
Judging by the local media as a figure of establishment with a bond close to regional allies including the Hezbollah Lebanon, he often cuts on foreign policy articles for Iran’s supreme website Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Amir-Abdollahian is Iran’s Pointman for talks with US officials in the 2007 joint committee in Baghdad about the security situation in Iraq.
“Negotiating with America has never been taboo,” he tweeted in 2018, referring to Baghdad talks, adding that the problem was “American intimidation” behavior.
Relisi also named the former Deputy Oil Minister and the Managing Director of the National Gas Company Javad Owji as the minister of oil.
Former Oil Minister Admiral Rostam Ghasemi, Economic Aide on the Chief of the Revolutionary Al-Quds Elite Forces and a Presidential Candidate, was nominated for Minister of Transportation.
Like Ghasemi, Picks Relision to lead the Interior Ministry and Tourism – Amir Vahidi and Ezzatollah Zarghami, each – is a member of the former guard who is under US sanctions.
Six rounds of nuclear talks between Iran and the world’s power were held in Vienna between April and June in an effort to revive the agreement.
The last round concluded on June 20, without the date set for another.
Iranian officials said the conversation would not continue before the new government took over.
A veteran from the bay affairs, Amir-Abdollahian served under the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 as Deputy Arab and African affairs before being replaced in 2016, a step that was highly criticized by conservative opponents Rouhani.
Amir-Abdollahian then rejected the offer to become Iran’s ambassador to Oman, according to Isna News Bigsten.
Since then he has served as a special maid for international affairs for the last two parliamentarians.