Ahmadinejad makes major mistep appointing relative to top VP post

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Ahmadinejad appointment of his daughter's father in law as first Vice President is generating widespread condemnation. Top reformist clerics are speaking out, including issuing fatwas condemning the pick. The supreme leader also reportedly called on Ahmadinejad to remove the previously minor figure from the top VP post

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/23/iran.vice.president.fatwa/index.html
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent pick for the country's top vice president continued to draw fire Thursday, with a senior cleric issuing a fatwa against the appointment, a leading reformist newspaper reported Sunday.


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent pick for the country's top vice president continued to draw fire Thursday.

According to the newspaper -- Etemad-e Melli -- Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi's Islamic edict against the selection of Esfandyar Rahim Mashaie is part of a larger fatwa issued Wednesday -- the same day the nation's supreme leader reportedly called on Ahmadinejad to remove Mashaie from the top vice president post.

There was no immediate reaction from Ahmadinejad's administration to Shirazi's decree denouncing the selection.

The appointment of Mashaie -- whose daughter is married to Ahmadinejad's son -- has been controversial because of comments he reportedly made last year, saying that the Iranian people are friends with all people, including Israelis. Critics also found fault with Mashaie for reportedly not leaving an area in Turkey where female dancers were performing.

"The selection of such a person has certainly no legitimacy and if wrongdoings in the said selection have been committed, they must be rectified immediately, and a hundred times more so if the high-ranking officials of the system have given their warnings," Shirazi said, according to Etemad-e Melli.

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