Iran’s parliament votes to keep Ahmadinejad’s minister

TEHRAN, Nov 1 ― Iran’s parliament voted today against removing the economy minister of hardline President Mahoud Ahmadinejad from office over the country’s biggest financial scandal. Parliamentarians who wanted to remove Shamseddin Hosseini lambasted him for mismanagement, including laxity in monitoring the banking sector. “141 of the 244 ...