A jailed Iranian journalist, Hoda Saber, has died after going on hunger strike, an opposition website says.
Kaleme.com said he died of a heart attack after being transferred from Tehran’s Evin prison to a hospital. Mr Saber, in his 50s, went on hunger strike on 2 June to protest about the death of Haleh Sahabi at the funeral of her activist father, Ezatollah Sahabi.
Mr Saber was jailed after the disputed 2009 elections that saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected. He had also served several prison terms since 2000.
“Security forces on Friday transferred him from Evin prison to Modarres hospital due to cardiac complication induced by his hunger strike,” Kaleme.com said. “But the damage of the cardiac complication… was too severe.”
Haleh Sahabi, 55, herself an opposition activist, died on 1 June during a confrontation with security forces at her father’s funeral. There are reports she was hit by security forces and died of a heart attack. Funerals involving other opposition figures have also been broken up. She had been allowed out of prison to attend her father’s funeral. Ezatollah Sahabi was a former MP and prominent dissident. Iranian officials denied any clashes with security had taken place at his funeral.
Ezatollah Sahabi was a member of the interim government installed after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, which resigned in protest over the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran. He died of stroke in a Tehran hospital on 30 May at the age of 81.
source: BBC News
Iran's Guardian Council, the powerful watchdog of the constitution, has called the establishment of the Ministry of Infrastructure unconstitutional.
Fars news agency reports that the Guardian Council says the government cannot appoint a minister to a ministry that does not have clearly defined and approved responsibilities. According to the Iranian constitution, the number of ministers and the limits of their responsibilities must be stipulated in legislation approved by Parliament.
Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodayi recently announced that the council determined at it latest meeting that the merger of three ministries, now being carried out by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration, is in violation of Article 133 of the constitution.
Last week, Parliament voted down the government's proposal to merge the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development into a Ministry of Infrastructure.
The Ahmadinejad administration's attempt to merge ministries has drawn criticism and sparked disputes with Parliament and the conservative elite, highlighting the limits of presidential power in the Islamic Republic.
source: Radio Zamaneh
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