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"Heydar... Email Print Iran's Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi speaks with foreign and local media at a news conference in Tehran in this January 11, 2011 file photo. Credit: Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl/Files Related News Iran intelligence minister resigns - agency 12:27pm EDT Bahrain says will not disband opposition groups: minister Fri, Apr 15 2011 Iran cuts interest rates on savings, loans Tue, Apr 12 2011 Iran calls Syrian protests a Western plot Tue, Apr 12 2011 Hardship blunts Iranian interest in Arab protests Mon, Apr 11 2011 Related Topics World » TEHRAN | Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:13pm EDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the resignation of Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi on Sunday, said the ISNA news agency, in a move seen as a rare political disagreement between Iran's top rulers. "Heydar Moslehi will continue his work as the intelligence minister after the supreme leader rejected his resignation," the ISNA student news agency reported, giving no further details. The official IRNA news agency reported earlier Moslehi's resignation had been accepted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The semi-official Fars news agency also quoted an unnamed source as saying the minister had been sacked. Under Iran's system of 'velayat-e faqih', or rule by religious legal scholar, the supreme leader should remain above the political fray of day-to-day politics. But Khamenei has overtly backed Ahmadinejad, particularly since Iran's disputed 2009 presidential vote that secured the hardline president's re-election. Analysts say Khamenei's move to reinstate Moslehi displays the leader's determination to have the last say on key positions. The appointment of key ministers for posts such as intelligence, defense and foreign affairs traditionally should be approved by the supreme leader. Khamenei shares Ahmadinejad's stance on the nuclear row with the West, which fears Iran's nuclear work is a cover to build bombs. Tehran denies it. But analysts say despite his support to the hardline president, Khamenei has never let any group, even among the conservative camp, gain enough power to challenge his authority' "It is a serious blow to Ahmadinejad ... The rejection shows who is the boss in Iran," said a political analyst, who asked to be unnamed. Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad demoted a controversial aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, whose unorthodox views about the role of powerful clergy and the importance of Iranian cultural values over Islam outraged hardliners in the establishment. Moslehi, a mid-ranking cleric, was criticised by parliamentarians in 2009 for lacking the experience necessary when proposed by Ahmadinejad for the position. 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