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Pezeshkian unveils three new appointments
Pezeshkian has appointed former finance minister Ali Tayebnia as his senior adviser.
Tayebnia, as a veteran and decorated economist in Iran, is a graduate of the University of Tehran and the London School of Economics and is known for reining in the runaway inflation under former president Hassan Rouhani.
In another decree, Pezeshkian appointed Hamid Pourmohammadi as his vice president and head of the Planning and Budget Organization.
Pourmohammadi, 56, has served as the deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran and deputy chief of Banking Affairs of the Finance Ministry among other posts.
Shahram Dabiri was also appointed by the president as his deputy for parliamentary affairs.
Earlier on Thursday, former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was named as the strategy deputy of the Iranian president.
Meanwhile, spokesman of the Parliament’s Presiding Board Alireza Salimi said that Pezeshkian and the Parliament’s Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf have agreed to postpone the submitting of the list of proposed ministers to the parliament as the government has yet to complete the final list.
Salimi said that the list will be probably sent to the Parliament by the end of the week. The parliament has two weeks to review the proposed ministers.