VOA News - Iran's Parliament Approves 18 of 21 Cabinet Nominees

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Iran's Parliament Approves 18 of 21 Cabinet Nominees

After five days of often bitter debate, the Iranian parliament has approved 18 out of 21 of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's Cabinet picks. The candidate for defense minister won overwhelming approval, despite accusations of involvement in a 1994 bombing against a Jewish community center in Argentina.

Iran's soft-spoken parliament speaker Ali Larijani moderated the long and often noisy five-day debate leading to the approval, of 18 out of 21 Cabinet ministers in President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's new government.

Larijani read out the vote tallies for each of the 21 Cabinet posts, indicating which ministers had won approval and which had not.

He said out of 286 members of parliament, 227 voted to approve President ...

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