Bloomberg
By Ladane Nasseri
Aliabadi, former head of Iran’s Physical Education Organization, will participate in the June 8 OPEC meeting, Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said today, according to Shana.
Iran, the second-biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia, holds the group’s rotating presidency this year.
Ahmadinejad appointed Aliabadi as a caretaker for the oil ministry on June 2, a day after Iran’s parliament voted to ask the courts to review whether the president broke the law by failing to appoint a temporary oil minister after he fired the previous one and put himself in charge.
Ahmadinejad sacked the country’s oil minister, Masoud Mir- Kazemi, in a reshuffle on May 14. He appointed himself one day later as the country’s oil caretaker, a move that was criticized by local industry experts and described on May 20 as “unlawful” by the Guardian Council, Iran’s top legal authority.