(Information added, first version posted at 12:04)
Some of Iranian members of parliament signed a scroll to impeach Foreign Minster Aliakbar Salehi because of appointing Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh as deputy of Commercial-Consecutive issues of ministry.
15 MPs already signed the scroll, Mehr News Agency reported. According to law, ten signatures are enough to impeach a minister at parliament. MPs say Sharif Malekzadeh has some corruption and law-violence dossier under investigation in judicature system of Iran.
Sharif Malekzadeh whom already appointed by High Advisor to the President and Chief of Staff of the President Office Esfandiyar Rahim Mashaei as Secretary-General of the High Council of Iranian Affairs Abroad, charged in corruption and law-violence.
Sharif Malekzadeh appointed by Salehi as deputy of Commercial-Consecutive issues of ministry yesterday.
Recently, Iranian Judicature System started massive investigations about some curruption dossiers about officials close to Mashaei. First Vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Vise president Hamid Baghaei and some of seniors charged in corruption.