TEHRAN - The names of 18 proposed ministers for the next cabinet were released on Wednesday. The remaining three ministers were scheduled to be announced in later hours.

Three women candidates are among the proposed ministers.
However, Deputy Majlis Speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar said Wednesday afternoon that the parliament has not received any list of cabinet nominees.
According to the information received by the Tehran Times the list of the 18 ministers is as follows:
1. Sousan Keshavarz: Education Minister --PhD in philosophy of education and former deputy education minister;
2. Reza Taqipour: Communications Minster -- MS in industrial engineering and former managing director of Iran’s telecommunication industries company;
3: Haidar Moslehi: Intelligence Minister --Supreme Leader’s representative to the Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and National Charity Organization director;
4: Shamsodin Hosseini: Economy Minister --PhD in economy, secretary of economic reform plan’s working group and head of administration’s economic committee;
5: Manouchehr Mottaki: Foreign Minister --Foreign minister of the previous administration, MP in the first and the seventh Majlis, former Iranian ambassador to Japan and Turkey, and former deputy foreign minister for international affairs;
6: Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi: Health Minister --Gynaecologist, MP during the fourth and fifth Majlis;
7: Mohammad Abbasi: Cooperative Minister --PhD in management, minister of Cooperatives in the previous administration and MP during the seventh Majlis;
8: Sadeq Khalilian: Agriculture Minister --PhD in economy of natural resource, a faculty member of Tarbiat Modares University and former deputy agriculture minister;
9: Hamid Behbahani: Transport Minister --Transport minister in the previous administration, PhD in civil engineering and former head of Civil Engineering College of Iran, University of Science and Technology;
10: Fateme Ajorlou: Welfare and Social Security Minister --PhD student in educational psychology and MP during the seventh and eighth Majlis;
11: Ali Akbar Mehrabian: Industries and Mines Minister --Minister of industries and mines in the previous administration and former presidential advisor;
12: Kamran Daneshjou: Science Minister --PhD in Aerospace, former deputy interior minister, Interior Ministry election office chairman during the last presidential election, former governor general of Tehran;
13: Mohammad Hosseini: Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister --A faculty member of University of Tehran, MP in the fifth Majlis and former deputy science minister;
14: Abdolreza Sheikholeslami: Labor Minister --PhD in civil engineering, former presidential advisor and head of presidential office, and faculty member of Iran University of Science and Technology;
15: Mostafa Mohammad Najar: Interior Minister
-- MA in administrative management and defense minister during the previous administration;
16: Ali Nikzad: Housing and Urban Development Minister --Governor general of Ardabil Province and head of Housing and Urban Development Organization of Ardabil Province;
17: Masoud Mirkazemi: Oil Minister --PhD in industrial engineering, commerce minister in the previous administration and Shahed University chancellor; and
18: Mohammad Ali-Abadi: Energy Minister --Vice president and head of Physical Education Organization in the previous administration