(AP/Yahoo) Ali Akbar Dareini - Iran's new president nominated a cabinet on Sunday that has hard-liners in all key ministries and is likely to lead to more confrontation in the country's dispute with Washington and Europe over its nuclear program. Not one of the 21 ministers that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated is known to be pro-democratic reform in Iran. The proposed foreign minister is Manouchehr Mottaki, a conservative lawmaker who has criticized Iran's nuclear negotiations with the Europeans, saying the country should adopt a tougher position and make no concessions. Several other proposed ministers are either members of the Revolutionary Guards, or have a history of cooperating with the Guards and security agencies, which take hard-line positions on Iran's nuclear program.
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