Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Ahmadinejad gets cabinet boost: "Ahmadinejad gets cabinet boost
Two of the three female cabinet nominees were rejected by legislators [AFP]
Iranian legislators have approved most of the cabinet nominees proposed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, including Iran's first female minister and a man linked to the bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina.
Parliament on Thursday rejected only three of Ahmadinejad's proposed new 21-member cabinet, signalling only a limited setback for the president as he enters his second term.
Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's new defence minister, received overwhelming backing from the parliament, garnering 227 out of 286 members of parliament present.
His nomination last month outraged Argentina, which has said he was 'deeply implicated' in an attack on a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in 1994 that left 85 people dead."
Thursday, September 03, 2009
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