Shamseddin Hosseini: Survives Impeachment

Economics Minister apologizes over bank fraud

Tehran Times: Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Shamseddin Hosseini survived an impeachment vote during an open session of the Majlis on Tuesday. Of the 244 votes cast, 141 MPs voted against impeachment, 93 voted to impeach, and 10 abstained. The parliamentarians who sought Hosseini’s removal cited his failure to fulfill his supervisory responsibilities to prevent the recent $2.6 billion financial fraud case as the reason for their motion to oust the minister >>>

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Arj

Posturings!

by Arj on Tue Nov 01, 2011 02:06 PM PDT

Ahmadi has threatened the Khamenei camp to "tell all" if they try to eliminate his allies, and they try to scare him off with impeachment just to keep him in line for the rest of his term! Indeed, nothing's gonna come out of these posturings! 


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Jahanshah Javid

Strong vote

by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Nov 01, 2011 07:17 AM PDT

Interesting that 141 MPs voted in favor of the minister, despite all the uproar about the banking scandal. So far only businessmen and lower ranked officials have been implicated. Looks like there's an unwillingness to bring down top government officials, despite growing animosity towards Ahmadinejad.


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Parham

It's not "Economics Minister"...

by Parham on Tue Nov 01, 2011 06:08 AM PDT

... but "Minister of Economy".


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