An Iranian legislator said he doesn't agree with a move to bring the country's president in for questioning before Parliament.
A motion signed Monday by 100 lawmakers called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to appear before Parliament to answer questions about his performance during his second term.
Hossein Sobhani-Nia, identified by the semiofficial Fars News Agency as an Iranian legislator, said the move against Ahmadinejad wasn't welcomed.
"The issue of questioning the president was reviewed and discussed in the presiding board," he was quoted as saying. "The presiding board's view is to convince (lawmakers) not to question (Ahmadinejad)."
The Iranian president must appear before members of Parliament within a month of being summoned unless lawmakers revoke their petition. If Parliament issues three written warnings that the administration broke the law in any way, he can be impeached.
Ahmadinejad, whose 2009 re-election was greeted with an uprising compared with the 1979 revolution, has faced months of internal conflicts with the country's hard-line lawmakers and conservative clerics.
One of his close allies was arrested last week for undisclosed reasons following a dustup in the country's Foreign Ministry.
Source: UPI
