Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
Iran's internal row escalated Wednesday as the parliament filed a brief in court accusing the president of violating the law by making himself caretaker of the oil ministry.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week dismissed oil minister Massoud Mirkazemi and took over the portfolio himself, which would have also made him rotating chairman at the OPEC meeting in Vienna.
The constitutional watchdog Guardian Council rejected the move as illegal and said he could not run the oil ministry as caretaker.
Although Ahmadinejad reportedly gave in and dropped the trip to Vienna, the parliament said he had violated the law and sent it to the judiciary for further investigation.
The president's plan to trim the cabinet, especially merge the oil ministry with the energy ministry, led to widespread criticism in parliament.
Ahmadinejad has also been involved in a row with the clergy and conservative faction over his close aides.
The aides were branded as a "deviant current" and accused of undermining the Islamic ruling system in Iran and the authority of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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