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| Majlis withdraws bill to impeach Moin |
| 2002-12-08 |
| Majlis Speaker Mehdi Karrubi Sunday announced that the deputies have withdrawn a bill to impeach Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mostafa Moin. Karrubi, speaking before the open session, said he had asked the deputies to cancel the bill, even though Moin had already said he was ready to answer the questions by parliamentarians. Some 20 deputies from the Majlis minority faction last week a bill to the Presiding Board of the Majlis to impeach Moin reportedly for his failure to stop the recent student unrest in the country. The deputies had cited the biased policies of science ministry officials toward the death sentence of academic Hashem Aghajari, and their provoking of students to stage rallies to protest the sentence as the main reasons for which they are going to impeach Moin. Members of the Science, Research and Technology ministry not believing in blind obedience to God's Annointed? Unheard of! Why, next thing you know they'll believe in myths like cause and effect... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |