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Iranian president officially appoints new foreign minister

Iran Materials 7 February 2011 20:51 (UTC +04:00)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially appointed Ali Akbar Salehi Iran's Foreign Minister, the official website of the President president.ir reported.

On Sunday Salehi won the vote of confidence of Iranian parliamentarians by getting 146 votes of the 241 lawmakers present in Majlis. Sixty lawmakers voted against Salehi and 35 abstained from voting.

In a letter to Majlis on January 23, President Ahmadinejad nominated caretaker Foreign Minister Salehi as Iran's foreign minister.

In mid-December, the Iranian chief executive dismissed former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and appointed the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran as the acting foreign minister.

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