Tehran - Iran's moderate President, Mr Mohammad Khatami, yesterday named a veteran security figure to replace a conservative intelligence minister who resigned over a spate of killings of dissidents.
In a letter to parliament, Mr Khatami said the head of military courts, Mr Ali Yunesi, would succeed Mr Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, who resigned last week over the involvement of his ministry's agents in the killings late last year.
Mr Yunesi is head of a presidential commission probing the killings.