The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has abruptly fired his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, and replaced him with the current head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, state media reported 13 December. Mottaki was on an official trip to Senegal. The government says that its foreign and nuclear policies remain unchanged. Rumours of Mottaki’s ...