| GEO World | | Iran parliament votes for majority of Ahmadinejad cabinet | Updated at: 1425 PST, Thursday, September 03, 2009
TEHRAN: Iran's conservative-dominated parliament voted on Thursday for 18 of the 21 members of the new cabinet proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, including the Islamic republic's first-ever woman cabinet minister.
Those rejected were two other women nominees and the energy ministry, which was to be headed by the current vice president Mohammad Aliabadi. |  |
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