Oil Ministry Caretaker Replaces Deputies

The new caretaker of the Iranian oil ministry, who ascended to power a few days ago after Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh was exempted from service in a cabinet reshuffling by President Ahmadinejad, has just started vast changes in the country’s giant oil industriesIn his first move on Monday, Iran’s acting oil minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari replaced his deputy for planning Hadi Nezhad Hosseinian with Akbar Torkan.

Also in a separate decree, Nozari assigned Hossein Noghrehkar Shirazi as his deputy for international affairs to replace Mohammad Reza Moghaddam