<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a504dd5e-2c12-4c87-b361-3a7525254d09/74F759F1-8ADD-46E0-A271-3CA3EA5E4EB3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11884" href="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11884" style="font-size: 11px;">www.feminist.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11884"><DIV> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that he will appoint at least three women to his cabinet. According to <A target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gs-61ArZKIf6svXWpDxIkt2sv_-A" linkindex="58"><I>Agence France Presse</I></A>, Fatemeh Ajorlou will be appointed as social welfare minister, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as health minister, and a third currently unidentified woman will be appointed to a third minister position. If approved, these appointees will be the first women cabinet ministers since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11884">Both Ajorlou and Dastjerdi are reportedly hardline conservatives, supporting enforcement of Islamic dress codes for women and proposing gender segregated healthcare, respectively</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11884">Women played a major role in the public uprising that followed the election and were particularly visible during the election campaigns</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11884">There is speculation that Ahmadinejad's move to appoint women to the cabinet is a means of courting women's support after the post-election turmoil</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74F759F1-8ADD-46E0-A271-3CA3EA5E4EB3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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