Iran's parliament has approved almost all new President Ebrahim Raeisi's cabinet choices, enabling him to start working in earnest with his government, following a June election victory.
Lawmakers approved one-by-one 18 out of 19 candidates put forward by Raeisi for the ministerial posts.
They rejected only his pick for the education portfolio, thus requiring the president to make another choice for that post.
Ebrahim Raeisi won a June 18 election and succeeded Hassan Rouhani, architect of the political opening that culminated in the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and major powers.
Iran has been strangled financially by sanctions reimposed by Washington after then US president Donald Trump pulled out of a multilateral nuclear deal in 2018.
The country of 83 million people has since been hit by a severe economic crisis amplified by the Covid pandemic.
Iran is currently grappling with a fifth wave of infections the strongest wave yet.