Rouhani Suffers Fresh Blow After Iran’s Parliament Ousts Economy Minister

Hard-liners have seized on Iran’s growing rich-poor divide and plummeting currency to gut Rouhani’s economic team

Iran’s parliament ousted the country’s economy minister Sunday, stepping up an overhaul of President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet amid deep domestic opposition to his response to harsh new U.S. sanctions.

Mr. Rouhani, a relative moderate in Iran’s system, had surrounded himself with a cabinet of technocrats, vowing to fight corruption, promote transparency and open Iran’s economy to the West with the 2015 nuclear deal.

But...