Hard-liners added to Cabinet
NZPA-Reuter Teheran The Iranian Prime Minister (Mr Mohammad Ali Rajai) named a 20-member Cabinet yesterday after a long dispute with President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr over the composition of his . Government.
He appointed Mr Hossein
Moussavi, editor of “Islamic Republic,” the official newspaper of the clergy-led Islamic Republic Party as his Foreign Minister, but left the key Defence portfolio vacant. 1 Mr Rajai kept his old posti. as Education Minister andj' kept Ayatollah Madhavir
Kani as Interior Minister. I The Government appointments were presented to thej Majlis (Parliament) by the! Speaker (Mr Hojatoleslam I Hashemi Rafsanjani). The President, who must iapprove the nominees before Mr Rajai can present them ito Parliament, has . balked
[at accepting Islamic fundamentalists in certain key I Ministries according to I political sources. ( Mr Bani-Sadr is anxious to keep some influence in the- Cabinet, which is expected to be dominated by his opponents in the Islamic Republican Party.
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