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Monday, December 13, 2010

Mottaki Fired as Foreign Minister

Iran has suddenly sacked Manouchehr Mottaki as Foreign Minister, and replaced him with ‘Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the nuclear program.

This is obviously a major development, but I'm going to await further details before speculating on what it means.

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