# Pezeshkian is appointed Minister of Health under Khatami

Date: 2001

## The fact

In August 2001 [Masoud Pezeshkian](/people/masoud-pezeshkian) became Minister of Health and Medical Education in Mohammad Khatami’s second cabinet, serving until 2005.

## Context

He was a Tabriz cardiac surgeon. Neighbouring 2024 presidency is later. He did not write a WHO resolution.

The 2024 presidency is a later executive. Majlis years sit in between.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is health-system capacity: a completed health-ministry term is an attempted system-capacity instrument under Khatami, with lag.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2001–05 health ministry appointment, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later mortality coefficient from the appointment hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He ran the ministry. Majlis confirmed. WHO did not staff Tehran hospitals.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Pezeshkian is appointed Minister of Health under Khatami, not a later speech about Pezeshkian is appointed Minister of Health under Khatami.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Pezeshkian is appointed Minister of Health under Khatami on 2001-08-22 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Pezeshkian is appointed Minister of Health under Khatami into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Khatami appointed him. He ran the ministry. Majlis confirmed. WHO did not staff Tehran hospitals. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity
- Public and donor investment in immunization systems: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ph-immunization-investment

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pezeshkian-profile-health-minister-2024/
- https://www.president.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-health-minister-2001