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To: DoctorZIn
Some ministers have resigned.
5 posted on 01/21/2004 3:09:17 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?ArchiveNews=Yes&NewsCode=21821&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) -- A number of Iranian Ministers and vice presidents have submitted their resignations in protest at the mass disqualification of candidates from next month's election, and will quit the cabinet unless hardliners back down, Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi said Wednesday.

"A certain number of ministers and vice-presidents have resigned," Abtahi told reporters after a meeting of the reformist government.

But he said those concerned would stay in their jobs to await the outcome of the re-examination of its candidate blacklist by the Guardians Council, the conservative political watchdog that has moved to bar large numbers of reformers from contesting the February 20 parliamentary polls.

"It is natural that they wait for the outcome of the work" of the Guardians Council, Abtahi said, without naming the cabinet members who had decided to resign.
6 posted on 01/21/2004 3:14:37 AM PST by AdmSmith
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