Iran MPs approve Rouhani's pick for ministry of industry
Iran’s parliament has approved President Hassan Rouhani’s pick for trade and industry minister after rejecting his other nominee in August.
Ali Reza Razmhosseini got 175 votes at the chamber in Tehran Tuesday to take on the post, Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said. There were 264 lawmakers at the session and 80 of them voted against him, while nine abstained.
Rouhani proposed Razmhosseini, the governor of the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, for the post after the parliament rejected his previous nominee Hossein Modarres Khiabani.
Delivering a live televised speech on the occasion of the National Teachers’ Day and International Workers’ Day (May Day), Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei rejected on Sunday the Western powers’ call on Iran to pursue submissive diplomacy in the West Asian region and saying that the IRGC Quds Force is the main pillar of Iran’s diplomacy in the region.
Announcing the end of his visit to the Persian Gulf countries, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated that glimmers of hope and positive signs are seen in Vienna talks and regional talks.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif deplored Western countries’ attempts to “reverse the victim and the culprits” regarding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
