Iran's hardline parliament approves reformist President Pezeshkian's Cabinet, first time since 2001
World | August 21, 2024 18:04 ISTAbbas Araghchi, 61, a career diplomat who oversaw the Iranian negotiations with the US over the now scrapped nuclear deal, will be Iran’s new foreign minister. Farzaneh Sadegh, the newly-appointed Housing and Road Minister, is the first female Iranian minister in a decade.