WOMEN IN IRANIAN GOVERNMENT

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11:49 / 08/17/2009

President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to propose three women
ministers in the new Cabinet, Reuters reports. After the Islamic
revolution in Iran (1979), this would be the first time women will
hold a ministerial position.

Meanwhile, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei nominated
Sadegh Larijani head of judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
Iranian presidential press-service informs.

Sadegh Larijani, 49, is a brother of the Iranian Parliament Chairman –
Ali Ardashir Larijani, considered one of the most powerful politics
of Iran, distanced from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Kommersant daily says.