share: digg facebook twitter TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament voted on Wednesday to take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over his takeover of the country's vital oil ministry, escalating the power struggle between the president and the hard-line establishment that has turned against him. The 165-1 vote was the latest salvo in the political maneuvering that began when Ahmadinejad publicly challenged Iran's supreme leader in April, only to back down. William Martel, a Professor of International Security at Tufts University's Fletcher School, concurred that Ahmadinejad's takeover of the oil industry "doesn't bode well for global energy markets." "With Iran's record in the last handful of years on a range of foreign policy issues, I don't know that this would be seen as terribly reassuring to the global energy market," he said.

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