Iran Focus
“I have not heard of it, and it is unlikely that this will happen”, radical Shiite cleric Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said of rumours that he may step down as Interior Minister and be-reassigned as Minister of Intelligence and Security.
“I am busy taking care of my responsibilities now and I would inform the nation on the issue when need be”, the official news agency IRNA quoted Pour-Mohammadi as saying.
This comes ten days after government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham confirmed that both Pour-Mohammadi and Iran’s Economy and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh Jafari would be replaced.
Hojjatol-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, 49, was previously in charge of the Special Department for Security and Intelligence in the Office of the Supreme Leader.
He is also a former Deputy Minister of Intelligence and Security and a former Military Revolutionary Prosecutor. Human rights groups charge that Pour-Mohammadi oversaw the murder of thousands of political prisoners in Iranian jails in 1988.