Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Dow Jones Newswires
by Benoit Faucon
Iran's lawmakers Wednesday approved a sanctioned senior official from the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as oil minister, as hardliners scored a major victory in tightening control over the country's most strategically important sector.
Brig. Gen. Rostam Ghasemi, who had been proposed by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was approved by 216 votes from a total of 264, according to Iran's Parliament website.
Ghasemi, who heads Khatam al-Anbiya, the most powerful economic wing of the Revolutionary Guards, will be the first commander from the elite paramilitary force to move into a ministerial post not related to defense.
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