#NORWAY: Deputy Progress Party Leader Per Sandberg Will Resign After Controversial Iran Visits With Young Iranian Girlfriend

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Fisheries Minister and as the Progress Party deputy leader Per Sandberg, 58, is resigning after weeks of attacks, from the media, opposition politicians and even from within his own party, after he visited Iran in July with his new Iranian girlfriend. He alerted neither his own ministry nor the Prime Minister’s office before the trip, and he brought his official cell phone.

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#NORWAY: Cabinet Member Says Educating Immigrant Girls Is Waste Of Time

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Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg believes it's wasteful to educate women with immigrant backgrounds, because they almost always leave their jobs after getting married, often in arranged marriages. He made the comments in his book "Against My Will," and they've attracted a firestorm of criticism. In 2003, he called Al Gore and his Global Warming agenda a "big fraud."

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Outspoken Progress Party Dep. Ldr. #Sandberg Not Likely to be Included in Gov't [world politics news]

Per Sandberg, the controversial Deputy Leader of the populist Progress Party of Norway, is likely to be denied a position in the new coalition government, in part because of his outspoken views on immigration and Islam. He will instead lead the party in parliament.