President Walks Out of Meeting in Protest
From Times Wire Reports
President Mohammad Khatami walked out of a meeting of Iran’s top arbitration body to protest a decision to hike the budget of a hard-line panel that has stymied his reform efforts, legislators said.
The unprecedented action by Khatami took place after the Expediency Council, a largely conservative body that arbitrates disputes between parliament and the Guardian Council, decided to more than double the Guardian Council’s budget to $12.5 million to supervise parliamentary elections next year.
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