President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again nominated Manouchehr Mottaki as foreign minister and Shamsodin Hosseini as economy minister. Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar has also been named as interior minister in the new cabinet, and Trade Minister Masoud Mirkazemi as oil minister.

According to MNA, the names of persons for proposed ministries are as follows:

1. Sousan Keshavarz: education minister

2. Reza Taqipour:  communications minster

3: Haidar Moslehi: intelligence minister

4: Shamsodin Hosseini: economy minister

5: Manouchehr Mottaki: foreign minister

6: Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi: health minister

7: Mohammad Abasi: cooperative minister

8: Sadeq Khalilian: agriculture minister

9: Hamid Behbahani: transport minister

10: Fateme Ajorlou: welfare and social security minister

11: Ali Akbar Mehrabian: industries and mines minister

12: Kamran Daneshjou: science minister

13: Mohammad Hosseini: culture and Islamic guidance minister 

14: Abdolreza Sheikholeslami: labor minister 

15: Mostafa Mohammad Najar: interior minister

16: Ali Nikzad: housing and urban development minister

17: Masoud Mirkazemi: oil minister

18: Mohammad Ali-Abadi: energy minister