First government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

First Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Cabinet
First Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Cabinet
; 9th Cabinet of Islamic Republic of Iran
President of Iran
	Ahmadinejad at Columbia University, 2007
Date formed	3 August 2005
Date dissolved	3 August 2009
People and organisations
Head of state	Ali Khamenei
Head of government	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Head of government's history	List Mayor of Tehran (2003–05) ; Ardabil Governor-general (1993–97) ;
Deputy head of government	Parviz Davoodi
No. of ministers	21
Ministers removed	11
Total no. of members	32
History
Election	Iranian presidential election, 2005
Legislature term	7th term 8th term
Predecessor	Khatami II
Successor	Ahmadinejad II

The cabinet headed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009 included the following members:

Cabinet


Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office		Ref
Presidential Administration
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	3 August 2005	3 August 2009	ABII
First Vice President	Parviz Davoodi	24 August 2005	17 July 2009	Nonpartisan
First Vice President	Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei	17 July 2009	24 July 2009	CPSS
Head of President's Office	Gholam-Hossein Elham	10 August 2005	17 February 2007	Nonpartisan
Head of President's Office	Reza Sheykholeslam	17 February 2007	25 July 2009	CPSS
Chief of Staff	Ali Saeedlou	September 2005	19 September 2009	ABII
Spokesperson	Gholam-Hossein Elham	7 August 2005	25 July 2009	Nonpartisan
Secretary	Masoud Zaribafan	12 September 2005	10 December 2006	SDIR
Secretary	Majid Doust-Ali	13 July 2007	3 August 2009	Nonpartisan
Ministers
Minister of Education	Ali-Asghar Fani (head of ministry)	12 September 2005	9 November 2005	Nonpartisan
	Mahmoud Farshidi	9 November 2005	1 December 2007	SDIR
	Alireza Ali-Ahmadi^[A]	1 December 2007	3 September 2009	SDIR
Minister of Communications	Mohammad Soleimani	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Intelligence	Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i	24 August 2005	23 July 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Intelligence	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (head of ministry)	25 July 2009	3 August 2009	SDIR
Minister of Finance	Davoud Danesh-Jafari	24 August 2005	2 April 2008	SDIR
	Hossein Samsami (head of ministry)	20 April 2008	5 August 2008	Nonpartisan
	Shamseddin Hosseini	5 August 2008	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Manouchehr Mottaki	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	FFLIL
Minister of Commerce	Masoud Mir-Kazemi	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Military
Minister of Health	Kamran Bagheri Lankarani	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Cooperatives	Mohammad Ardakani^[B]	27 August 2005	28 October 2006	JAM
Minister of Cooperatives	Mohammad Abbasi	5 November 2006	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Agriculture	Mohammad-Reza Eskandari	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Military
Minister of Justice	Jamal Karimi-Rad	24 August 2005	28 December 2006	Nonpartisan
Minister of Justice	Gholam-Hossein Elham^[C]	28 December 2006	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Defence	Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Military
Minister of Roads	Mohammad Rahmati	24 August 2005	12 July 2008	Military
Minister of Roads	Hamid Behbahani	5 August 2008	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Welfare	Davoud Madadi (head of ministry)	27 August 2005	9 November 2005	Nonpartisan
	Parviz Kazemi	9 November 2005	25 September 2006	Nonpartisan
	Ali Yousefpour (head of ministry)	25 September 2006	29 October 2006	SDIR
	Abdolreza Mesri	29 October 2006	3 September 2009	ICP
Minister of Industries	Alireza Tahmasbi	24 August 2005	5 August 2007	Military
Minister of Industries	Ali Akbar Mehrabian^[D]	12 August 2007	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Science	Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Culture	Hossein Saffar Harandi	24 August 2005	26 July 2009	Military
Minister of Culture	Mohammad-Ali Khajeh-Piri (head of ministry)	26 July 2009	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan	^[1]
Minister of Interior	Mostafa Pourmohammadi	24 August 2005	May 2008	CCA
	Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi (head of ministry)	15 May 2008	5 August 2008	Military
	Ali Kordan	5 August 2008	4 November 2008	Nonpartisan
	Kamran Daneshjoo (head of ministry)	4 November 2008	24 December 2008	FPP
	Sadegh Mahsouli	24 December 2008	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Labour	Mohammad Jahromi	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Housing	Mohammad Saeedikia	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Petroleum	Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh^[F]	31 August 2005	12 August 2007	Nonpartisan
Minister of Petroleum	Gholam-Hossein Nozari^[E]	12 August 2007	3 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Minister of Energy	Parviz Fattah	24 August 2005	3 September 2009	Military
Vice Presidents
Executive Vice President	Ali Saeedlou	10 September 2005	25 August 2009	ABII
Planning and Supervision Vice President	Amir-Mansour Borghe'i	18 July 2007	17 July 2009	Nonpartisan
Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Vice President	Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi	30 August 2005	16 January 2008	Nonpartisan
	Majid Jafarzadeh (head of ministry)	16 January 2008	25 May 2008	Nonpartisan
	Mohammad Reza Rahimi	25 May 2008	13 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Management Development and Human Capital Vice President	Amir-Mansour Borghe'i (head of ministry)	18 July 2007	21 October 2007	Nonpartisan
Management Development and Human Capital Vice President	Ebrahim Azizi	21 October 2007	17 July 2009	Nonpartisan
Martyrs Vice President	Hossein Dehghan	3 August 2005	17 July 2009	Military
Elites Vice President	Parviz Davoodi	9 April 2006	21 January 2007	Nonpartisan
Elites Vice President	Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh	4 February 2007	21 September 2009	Nonpartisan
Atomic Energy Vice President	Gholam Reza Aghazadeh	3 August 2005	17 July 2009	ECP
Physical Education Vice President	Mohammad Aliabadi	25 September 2005	25 August 2009	ABII
Environment Vice President	Fatemeh Javadi	7 September 2005	2 September 2009	ABII
Management and Planning Vice President	Farhad Rahbar	September 2005	15 November 2006	Nonpartisan
Management and Planning Vice President	Amir-Mansour Borghe'i	15 November 2006	9 July 2007	Nonpartisan
National Youth Vice President	Mohammad-Javad Haj-AliAkbari	2005	24 July 2009	Nonpartisan
Cultural Heritage Vice President	Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei	18 August 2005	17 July 2009	CPSS
^ Acting from 1 December 2007 to 19 February 2008 ^ Acting from 27 August to 9 November 2005 ^ Acting from 28 December 2006 to 13 February 2007 ^ Acting from 12 August to 2 November 2007 ^ Acting from 12 August to 14 November 2007 ^ Acting from 31 August to 11 December 2005 * Acting

References

^ "Saffar Harandi was deposed" (in Persian). Fars News Agency. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.

[1] Acting from 1 December 2007 to 19 February 2008

[2] Acting from 27 August to 9 November 2005

[3] Acting from 28 December 2006 to 13 February 2007

[4] Acting from 12 August to 2 November 2007

[6] Acting from 12 August to 14 November 2007

[7] Acting from 31 August to 11 December 2005

[5] "Saffar Harandi was deposed" (in Persian). Fars News Agency. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.

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Cabinets of Iran
Pahlavi Iran (1925–1979)	Foroughi I Mostowfi X Mostowfi XI Mostowfi XII Hedayat I Hedayat II Hedayat III Hedayat IV Foroughi II Foroughi III Jam I Jam II Matin-Daftari A. Mansur I Foroughi IV Foroughi V Foroughi VI Foroughi VII Soheili I Qavam V Soheili II Sa'ed I Sa'ed II Sa'ed III Bayat Hakimi I Sadr Hakimi II Qavam VI Qavam VII Qavam VIII Qavam IX Qavam X Hekmat Hakimi III Hazhir Sa'ed IV A. Mansur II Razmara^M Ala' I Mosaddegh I Qavam XI Mosaddegh II Zahedi^M Ala' II Eghbal Sharif-Emami I Amini Alam I Alam II Mansur Hoveyda I Hoveyda II Hoveyda III Hoveyda IV Hoveyda V Hoveyda VI Amouzegar Sharif-Emami II Azhari^M Bakhtiar
Islamic Republic of Iran (since 1979)	Bazargan^P Revolutionary Council^P Rajai Bahonar Mahdavi Kani^P Mousavi I Mousavi II Rafsanjani I Rafsanjani II Khatami I Khatami II Ahmadinejad II Rouhani I Rouhani II Raisi Mokhber^P Pezeshkian
^M Military government ^P Provisional government

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Member of Expediency Discernment Council (2013–present) Ex officio member at Presidency Era • 6th President of Iran (2005–2013) • Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces (2005–2013) • 53rd Mayor of Tehran (2003–2005) • 1st Governor of Ardabil Province (1993–1997) • 28th Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement (2012–2013) • Chairperson of the ECO (2009–2010) • Chairperson of the Group of 15 (2006–2010)
Life and politics	Electoral history 2000 legislative election 2005 presidential election 2009 presidential election Presidency First Cabinet Second Cabinet Mehr Housing plan Gasoline rationing plan Riots Subsidy reform plan Foreign policy Controversies Deviant current Israel 1979 hostage crisis Letter to George W. Bush International Conference to Review the Holocaust 10th ECO Summit International Conference on Non-Proliferation 14th G-15 summit 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement 2017 presidential election	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Political parties	Office for Strengthening Unity (1979–1980) Islamic Society of Engineers (1988–present; inactive since 2005) Society of Devotees (1999–2011) Alliance of Builders (2003–2005)
Related articles	Council for Spreading Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Thoughts Durban Review Conference
Family	Azam al-Sadat Farahi (wife) Davoud Ahmadinejad (brother) Parvin Ahmadinejad (sister) Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (co-fathers-in-law)
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