VOL. XL

No. 33

18-August-1997

IRAN

Zanganeh Nominated New Oil Minister In Iran

Mr. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Energy Minister in the outgoing government of former IranianPresident Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been nominated to the key post of Oil Ministerin the 22-man cabinet proposed by the newly installed President Mohammad Khatami. Hereplaces the long-serving former Minister of Oil, Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh. All nomineesto ministerial posts are subject to approval by a majority of the...