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Ahmadinejad Fires Two Cabinet Ministers
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dismissed two key cabinet ministers on Sunday in the latest fallout of a bitter dispute among conservatives this is the NYTimes so nutcase radicals are called conservatives that has exposed Mr. Ahmadinejad's political vulnerability in the wake of last month's disputed presidential election. Mr. Ahmadinejad sacked the intelligence minister, Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Ejei, and the Islamic culture and guidance minister, Muhammad-Hassan Saffar-Harandi. Both men had walked out of a cabinet meeting last week in protest of Mr. Ahmadinejad's promotion of a former culture minister, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, who drew fierce criticism last year over comments that were friendly to Israel. There were also reports late Sunday that two more ministers might also be sacked...as reformist factions have rallied against Mr. Ahmadinejad, his own rivals among conservatives appear to smell blood in the water, and have pressed him hard over the promotion of Mr. Mashaei. Mr. Ahmadinejad is now in something of a quandary: he has dismissed more than half his cabinet, which means under Iranian law only if you mean "law" in the literal sense that he must obtain a vote of confidence from the Parliament. Posted by: Lord garth 2009-07-27 |
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