Iran's parliament dismisses labor minister

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) speaks to Vice President, Mohammad Reza Rahimi (C) during the impeachment of the labor minister , Abdolreza Sheikholeslami (R) at the parliament in Tehran, Iran on February 3, 2013. Out of 272 lawmakers in the parliament on Sunday, 192 voted against the labor minister. The main reason behind the MP's decision to dismiss the minister was Sheikholeslami's refusal to remove former Tehran prosecutor general Saeed Mortazavi from his post as the director of the Social Security Organization. UPI/Maryam Rahmanian