New head for Iranian nuclear agency
17 July 2009
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh has resigned as the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and Vice President of Iran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. No details as to the reason for Aghazadeh’s resignation from the post he has held for the past 12 years were given. The former Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali Akbar Salehi, has been appointed as the new head of the AEOI by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.