Most Picks for Cabinet Approved in Iran

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › September 04, 2009

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TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices - naming the first woman minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution but showing international defiance by supporting a suspected mastermind in an Argentine Jewish center bombing.

The conservative-dominated legislature rejected Ahmadinejad's choice for energy minister and two other women nominated for less prominent posts. The rest of his 21-member Cabinet was approved.

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Most Picks for Cabinet Approved in Iran

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