Iranian hard-liners in parliament reject president's nominee
Iranian hard-liners in parliament on Wednesday voted against President Hassan Rouhani's nominee for trade minister in the first showdown between your rival camps because the house resumed work in-may regardless of the struggles to curb the spread of the coronavirus.In line with the parliament's website, lawmakers rejected Hossein Modares Khiabani's nomination for minister of trade and industries.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the vote was 140-104 against the nominee. There have been 254 lawmakers at the session and 10 abstained. The parliament has 290 seats. The vote marked the first serious confrontation between your newly elected house, dominated by conservatives and the bloc of supporters of the relatively moderate Rouhani.
Beneath the law, Rouhani must introduce new nominees to his Cabinet in the next three months.Rouhani in-may dismissed the trade and industry minister at that time, Reza Rahmani, as Iran faced an unprecedented economical downturn amid intense pressure from the United States after President Donald Trump pulled America out of Iran's nuclear with world powers and reimposed sanctions on the country.
Khiabani, 52, had since been the acting trade minister. Iran can be grappling with the greatest and deadliest outbreak of the coronavirus in the centre East, with an increase of than 331,000 confirmed cases and at least 18,800 deaths.
