Parliament on Sunday approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fourth nominee for oil minister, ending months of political brawling over the top cabinet job. Iran, which is the world’s fourth-largest producer of crude oil, has been without top-level direction for its oil policy since August, with output capacity sliding and no new production deals signed. Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh, the nominee approved Sunday, was the acting oil minister and served as a deputy oil minister under former President Mohammad Khatami, whose reformist allies Mr. Ahmadinejad defeated in elections in June. Full Story