Iran's impeached official on duty again

The recently impeached Labor Minister Abdolreza Sheikholeslami has been appointed vice president of public affairs by a presidential decree, ISNA reported.

On Feb. 3, Iranian parliament voted to dismiss Labor Minister Abdolreza Sheikholeslami over his decision to appoint Saeed Mortazavi, a former prosecutor accused of links to the deaths of prisoners, to a new job.

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, defending his minister against impeachment in the parliament, accused country's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijan's family of corruption.

"Our problem is that our president does not observe the basics of proper behaviour," Larjani said at the time, retorting to the president's comments, adding that it had nothing to do with Sheikholeslami's impeachment process.


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