Iran supreme leader moves to break impasse over key cabinet post
Iran's supreme leader moved on Saturday to break a factional deadlock over the sensitive Ministry of Higher Education by reinstating President Hassan Rouhani's moderate pick as interim minister, Iranian media reported. On Tuesday, the conservative-dominated parliament rejected his fourth nominee to lead universities, which have been centers of ideological battles between pro-democracy reformers and Islamist hardliners. The ministry has been run by a caretaker, Mohammad Ali Najafi, since August, when a moderate technocrat appointed by ...
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