Tehran - The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, has resigned, the ISNA news agency reported Thursday. Aqazadeh, who also served as an Iranian vice president, submitted his resignation letter for the combined vice presidential and nuclear chief post to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad three weeks ago, ISNA said.

No reason was given for the resignation in the report, which also did not disclose whether it was a political or a technical decision by Aqazadeh and Ahmadinejad. No successor has been appointed for the position, which deals with all technical aspects of Iran's nuclear programme.

That programme has been the object of sanctions by the United Nations. While Iran's leaders assert the nuclear programme only serves energy production, there are concerns in the international community that the country might one day use the technology for atomic weapons.

Behrou jan, not sure whether this is good or bad! If there is political reason behind it, I guess its a good thing to show even more division among IR....on the other hand if AN/Sepah goal is to completely change the direction of nuclear development then they need to have a sepahi MF lead the agency. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Well Hamid jaan, someone on Twitter said it best. These are the people that are jumpiung ship as it goes down. He was appointed by AN and Khaenei if I'm not mistaken, and this has always been a very important post, so if their own close people are refusing to work with them, I'm sure this is a good thing. BTW, he apparently resigned 3 weeks ago and it was only made public today, so there may be a whole lot of other resignations and defections post-election that we don't know about.

Behrou jan, not sure whether this is good or bad! If there is political reason behind it, I guess its a good thing to show even more division among IR....on the other hand if AN/Sepah goal is to completely change the direction of nuclear development then they need to have a sepahi MF lead the agency. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
R.T,
Iranian nuclear R&D has always been under direct supervision of IRGC, even when Aqazadeh was the chief.
So we just grab the political gain from this resignation and run away with it.:D

R.T,
Iranian nuclear R&D has always been under direct supervision of IRGC, even when Aqazadeh was the chief.
So we just grab the political gain from this resignation and run away with it.:D

Sounds good to me. But I am thinking maybe AN/Khaeni just want to reshovel the existing ministers for a show and want to install a hardcore IRGC olagh that would only concentrate on weapanizingprogram. I guess we'll find out in a few days.