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| Presidential source denies officials quit, says no decision on ElBaradei resignation |
| 2013-08-15 |
| [Al Ahram] A presidential source has denied to Al-Ahram Arabic news website Wednesday evening news of possible resignations by Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa El-Dini and the presidential political advisor for strategic affairs. The source further added that no final decision has been made regarding the resignation of Vice President for International Affairs Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and sometime Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. After the fall of Mubarak he ran for president. He lost. Earlier Wednesday, ElBaradei had submitted his resignation letter to Interim President Adly Mansour. The move came after scores were killed in a security forces crackdown on loyalists of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. ElBaradei earlier demanded high-level assurances that the operation would not veer from the within the boundaries of the law, and according to two sources "threatened to resign if the corpse count among the protestors proved to be high." |
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