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News Source: Zaman.com
| 5 months ago
The Guardian Council has almost finished reviewing defeated candidates' election complaints ... the reviews showed that the election was the healthiest since the revolution ... There were no major violations in the election," said Abbasali Kadkhodai,...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
Barack Obama, the US president, has rejected a demand by his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he apologise for condemning Iran's protest crackdown. At least 19 people have been killed and many more imprisoned in the protests against...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Iran's electoral watchdog, the Guardian Council, says it has seen no signs of fraud in 10 days of investigations, rejecting claims by three defeated presidential candidates of vote rigging. At the same time, a hardline cleric told Friday's prayer...
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News Source: The New Zealand Herald
| 5 months ago
Iran's electoral watchdog declared this month's election free of fraud as opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi refused to back down in his confrontation with the country's rulers. We have had no fraud in any presidential election and this one was...
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
27AM EDT A hardline Iranian cleric today called for the execution of “rioters” in the latest sign of the authorities' determination to stamp out opposition to the June 12 presidential election. Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council,...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 5 months ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at President Barack Obama yesterday, warning him against "interfering" in Iranian affairs and demanding an apology for criticism of a government crackdown on demonstrators protesting alleged electoral...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has vowed to resist pressure to end his challenge to the result of Iran's presidential election. In a statement Thursday on his newspaper Web site, Kalameh-ye Sabz, Mr. Mousavi said he will...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| 5 months ago
Iranian regime appears to have weathered the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution â but it has failed to silence a defiant opposition challenge to the disputed presidential election results. Undeterred by the...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Iran's opposition leader, Mirhossein Mousavi, refused to back down in his confrontation with the country's rulers yesterday, declaring: "It is a must for us to neutralise this evil conspiracy through our behaviour and expressions." Mr Mousavi's...
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News Source: The Independent
| 5 months ago
Repression may have stifled the Tehran street protests, but – as was clear from Mirhossein Mousavi's statement yesterday – the opposition's challenge remains alive. And while this is a messy outcome to an election, it has many more ramifications.