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Iranian MP Laleh Eftekhari walks under portraits of Iranian MPs, who were assassinated in the first years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, during a parliament session in Tehran on March 17, 2013. Iranian President Ahmadinejad sought a parliamentary confidence vote for his proposed Health Minister Mohammad Hassan Tarighat Monfared, who has been caretaker of the health ministry since December when Ahmadinejad sacked former minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, the sole woman in his cabinet and the first female minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI