Iran clerics object to women ministers
Agence France-Presse
Saturday, Aug 22, 2009
TEHRAN -- Iran's conservative clerics have objected to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision to include three women in his new cabinet, a report said on Saturday, dealing a blow to the hardliner's bid to secure parliament's nod for his ministerial line-up.
Ahmadinejad named Sousan Keshvaraz, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi and Fatemeh Ajorlou as his ministers respectively of education, health, and welfare and social security in his 21-member cabinet.
"Although it is a new idea to choose women as ministers, there are religious doubts over the abilities of women when it comes to management. This should be considered by the government," Mohammad Taghi Rahbar, the head of the clerics' faction in the 290-member conservative-dominated Iranian parliament was quoted as saying by the conservative daily Tehran Emrouz.
He said the faction will seek the opinion of the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the issue.
Ahmadinejad's proposed cabinet, which boasts 11 new names including the three women, will face a vote of confidence on August 30.
Rahbar said leading Iranian clerics such as Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi and Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayghani too wanted Ahmadinejad to reconsider his decision regarding the three women.
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Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women have been banned from becoming judges and suffer from legal inequalities with men in marriage, divorce and inheritance.
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While by no means endorsing the backwardness of those clerics regarding women's abilities, I must say that it would appear that in the case of these particular women, it won't be such a great loss if they don't make the cut (see here and here).
Fair enough -- but judge them on their merits and not there gender!
Right you are! It's just that for my own moral comfort, I didn't want to add anything more to my comment above that would be construed as providing legitimacy to Ahmadi Nejad's government. I don't think it is a legitimate gov't although I realize that it's up to the Iranians to decide that.
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