Iran's parliament (Majlis) approved on Sunday the last three ministers in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 21-member cabinet after rejecting his original choices in September, the semi-official ILNA news agency said.

MP Hamid Reza Hajibabai, former interior minister Sadeq Mahsouli and Majid Namjou, a former deputy energy minister, were voted in to head the education, welfare and energy portfolios respectively.

On September 3, parliament approved 18 members of the new Ahmadinejad cabinet, including the Islamic republic's first woman minister, a doctor who holds the health portfolio.

At the time parliament rejected the nominations for education, welfare and energy ministers on the grounds that they were unqualified.


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