The Iranian Cabinet approved the appointment of Malek Rahmati as new governor of East Azerbaijan province on Sunday.
Rahmati has served as head of Iran’s Privatization Organization for the past year.
The young governor replaces Zeinolabedin Khorram who served as the top administrative official in East Azerbaijan for more than two years before he died on Saturday.
Khorram was a veteran commander of Iran’s elite IRGC military force and died of illnesses related to chemical wounds suffered during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
East Azerbaijan is the largest and most populous of three northwestern Iranian provinces that are home to a sizable ethnic Azeri population.
The province borders the Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and its capital of Tabriz is one of Iran’s largest trade hubs.
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