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Posted on 05/14/2011 10:55:31 AM PDT by Cardhu
Three Iranian ministers have been dismissed and their departments dismantled in a government restructuring that cuts the number of ministries from 21 to 17, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, has announced.
Ahmadinejad announced the sackings of the country's ministers of oil, social welfare, and industry and mining, following a recent law passed by parliament which requires him to shrink the country's number of ministries, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
While a change was expected, the sudden dismissal comes as a surprise, as all three were considered staunch supporters of Ahmedinejad, and because Iran's parliament is still discussing an earlier proposal suggesting that the country's oil and energy ministries, as well as labour and social welfare ministries, should be merged.
It was not immediately clear who would take over the merged agencies. According to Iranian law, parliament has to approve the remit of any new ministry.
But parliamentary approval could be a difficult path, as parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has been publicly critical of Ahmadinejad's domestic and economic policies.
For the world's fifth largest oil exporter, the abolition of the oil ministry could have major effects, although the specific impact remains unclear.
...the country's ministers of oil, social welfare, and industry and mining, following a recent law passed by parliament which requires him to shrink the country's number of ministries... all three were considered staunch supporters of Ahmedinejad... Iran's parliament is still discussing an earlier proposal suggesting that the country's oil and energy ministries, as well as labour and social welfare ministries, should be merged.
Typical news people do not know the workings of the world. Ahmadinejad is like the US press secretary he only speaks in behalf of the Supreme Leader. the government is a theocracy the media thinks everything in the world is equal or a democracy of some sort
yep,
the Arab spring of discontent and spreading of democracy. Its great to see a Arab “democracy” in action.
Flipping mid eastern parrots... and these are the assjacks that Obama wants to support... in the name of “democracy”
Wish that either of the Bushes had had that political courage and had axed the Energy Dept., the Education Dept., and the EPA. The USA would be in far better shape today.
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