First government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

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

Cabinet

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party		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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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[E]	31 August 2005	12 August 2007		Nonpartisan
	Gholam-Hossein Nozari[F]	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
	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
	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
	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
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