The Iranian Parliament’s Energy Committee has declared that President Massoud Pezeshkian’s pick for the oil ministry is disqualified for the post.
After examining the background of Mohsen Paknejad and holding talks with him before the main vote of confidence on Saturday, the committee decided he is not fit for the key post.
Paknejad managed to secure only 7 votes in favor from the 23-memebr committee.
As a rule of thumb, the proposed candidates for the cabinet who fail to secure the committees’ approval, are unlikely to get a vote of confidence in the official session.
Several Iranian lawmakers at the parliament, dominated by principlists, had earlier hinted Paknejad will not be given the go-ahead for the ministerial position.
Paknejad, born in 1966 in Tehran, has a background in developing gas fields as a senior advisor for the oil industry.
Iran's Armed Forces stressed Tehran's resolve to avenge the blood of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh,…
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that pager and walkie-talkie blasts by Israel…
In the latest news briefing in Beirut on Thursday, Lebanon’s Health Minister Firass Abiad announced…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged a unified stance among Muslim nations to safeguard their…
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a meeting with members of the Parliament’s National Security and…
The Japanese maker of the brand of walkie-talkies linked to the recent deadly explosions in…