President Mohammad Khatami's Cabinet
August 1997
President:
Hojjat-ol eslam Mohammad Khatami
Defense & Military Logistics: Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani
Foreign Affairs: Kamal Kharrazi
Intelligence and Security: Qorban-Ali Dori-Najafabadi
Interior: Abdollah Nuri
Islamic Guidance & Culture: Ataollah Mohajerani
Oil Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh
Economy and Finance: Hossein Namazi
Justice: Mohammad Esmail Shustari
Construction Jihad: Mohammad Saidi-Kia
Industries: Gholam Reza Shafei
Post, Telephone & Telegraph: Mohammad Reza Aref
Education & Training: Hossein Mozaffar
Roads & Transport: Mahmoud Hojati
Housing & Urban Development: Ali Abdolalizadeh
Mines & Minerals: Eshaq Jahangiri
Cooperatives: Morteza Haji
Agriculture: Issa Kalantari
Higher Education: Mostafa Moin
Energy: Habibollah Bitaraf
Health & Medical Education: Mohammad Farhadi
Labor and Social Affairs: Hossein Kamali
Commerce: Mohammad Shariatmadari.
Vice Presidents:
Hasan Habibi, First VP (carry-over)
Mohammad Hashemi, Executive Affairs (carry over)
Ms. Masoumeh Ebtekar, VP in charge of the Environmental Protection
Organization
Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, VP in charge of Atomic Energy
Mohammad Baqerian, VP in charge of the Organization for Administrative
Affairs, Civil Service, and Employment
Mohammad Ali Najafi, who served as minister of education in the outgoing
government, was put in charge of the Planning and Budget Organization
Seyed Abdul-Vahed Mousavi-Lari, VP for legal and parliamentary affairs.
Mostafa Hashemi-Taba, VP for Physical Training Organization (carry
over)