Mohsen Rezaei appointed as Iran’s president’s deputy for economic affairs
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has picked Mohsen Rezaei, a seasoned politician and a former high-ranking military commander, as his economic deputy.
Raeisi issued a decree on Wednesday appointing Rezaei as president’s economic deputy and as the Secretary of the Economic Headquarters of the Iranian Cabinet.
The decree also named Rezaei as the new secretary of the supreme council on economic coordination between heads of the three branches of the Iranian government.
Rezaei has served for 14 years as secretary of the Iranian Expediency Council, a legislative body tasked with settling disputes between the administrative government and the parliament in Iran.
He is best known for his 16 years as commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) during and after the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Rezaei, 67, contested the Iranian presidential election in June where he campaigned for equal distribution of income among the Iranian population.
A graduate of economics from the University of Tehran, Rezaei promised during his presidential campaign that he would increase monthly cash handouts to all Iranians by nearly 10 times to 4,500,000 rials ($16).
He said he would fund the massive cash handout scheme through crude sales revenues which he said would increase once Iran and world powers reach an agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Rezaei came second to Raeisi in the 2021 presidential election with three million votes. He is Raeis’s third appointment since the new president was sworn in early this month.
The appointment came hours before the Iranian parliament approved all but one member of Raeisi’s proposed cabinet of 19 ministers.
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