Google – AFP, 27 August 2013
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A woman
flashes a victory sign as she holds a portrait of Hassan Rowhani
after
elections in Tehran on June 15, 2013 (AFP/File, Behrouz Mehri)
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TEHRAN —
Iran plans to appoint a woman ambassador and a spokeswoman for the foreign
ministry for the first time in the Islamic republic's history, Iranian media
reports said Tuesday.
Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif "wants to employ women for two post: as
spokesperson and to lead an embassy," current ministry spokesman Abbas
Araqchi said, quoted in the media.
A final decision
is expected "within a week," Araqchi said.
President
Hassan Rowhani, a moderate cleric whose all-male cabinet took power earlier
this month, has reportedly asked the government to appoint women to high-level
posts in the Islamic republic, which was founded in 1979.
Rowhani has
already named two women: Elham Aminzadeh , who like himself holds a doctorate
in law from the University of Glasgow, as vice president for parliamentary
affairs, and Parvin Dadandish as his women's affairs advisor.
His
predecessor as president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, secured approval from the
conservative-dominated parliament to appoint Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as the
republic's first-ever female minister.
Dastjerdi
was sacked as health minister in late 2012 over disagreements with Ahmadinejad
over price hikes for imported drugs.
Reformist
former president Mohammad Khatami, in office from 1997 to 2005, appointed
Massoumeh Ebtekar as vice president in charge of environmental protection.
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