Deputy for Communications and Information at the Presidential Office Mehdi Tabatabaei said Monday that President Masoud Pezeshkian had accepted the resignation of Mohammadreza Farzin and has appointed Hemmati in his place earlier in the day.
Abdolnasser Hemmati (left)has replaced Mohammad Reza Farzin (right) as Iran's Central Bank Governor (image caption).
The 67-year old economist and politician Abdolnaser Hemmati was the director of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from 2018 until late May 2021.
He was a reformist contender in the 2021 presidential elections.
The new CBI governor was appointed economy minister by the current President Masoud Pezeshkian administration but was impeached by the parliament on March 2, 2025.
MNA