Tehran, April 18: Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi has resigned from his position and has been appointed as presidential advisor in intelligence affairs.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accepted Moslehi’s resignation on Sunday.
However, in a presidential decree, Ahmadinejad appointed Moslehi as his advisor in intelligence affairs.
The Iranian president has yet to name a caretaker for the intelligence ministry.
The Iranian Parliament (Majlis) in early February impeached and gave a vote of no-confidence to the Minister of Roads and Transportation, Hamid Behbahani.
Behbahani was impeached weeks after an Iranian passenger plane crashed near the northwestern city of Orumiyeh in January. At least 77 people lost their lives and more than 27 others sustained injuries in the crash.
President Ahmadinejad dismissed his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, in December 2010, appointing Ali Akbar Salehi, the former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), in his place.
——–Agencies