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TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shaken up his administration with the dismissal of 14 advisers, Iranian media reported Sunday.
The Peninsula newspaper said the Mehr news agency quoted presidential adviser Mehdi Kalhor as saying he and 13 others had received letters notifying them they had been terminated. Similarly, PBS Frontline's Tehran bureau reported the Iranian Web site Mashregh also announced the firings.
Iran's Press TV reported Ahmadinejad thanked the 14 for their service and wished them well in other service areas.
Besides Kalhor, the group included: Mojtaba Rahmandoust, Abolfazl Tavakoli Bina, Mohammad Reza Etemadian, Seyyed Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, Mohammad Sattari Vafaei, Mehdi Chamran, Mohammad Rouyanian, Ali Montazeri,Ali Asghar Zarei, Mehdi Mostafavi, Davoud Danesh Jafari, Ali Akbari and Sousan Keshavarz.
Frontline said most of those dismissed were aligned with Iran's hardliners and had been critical of Ahmadinejad's chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.
The Peninsula noted the firings follow last month's dismissal of Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Mehrdad Bazrpash, vice president for youth affairs.
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