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Iran Guardians Council to meet defeated trio
Iran's top legislative body has decided to invite the three defeated candidates in last week's disputed presidential election to a meeting tomorrow to discuss their complaints, its spokesman said on Thursday.
- Agencies
- Published: 23:03 June 18, 2009
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Tehran: Iran's top legislative body has decided to invite the three defeated candidates in last week's disputed presidential election to a meeting tomorrow to discuss their complaints, its spokesman said on Thursday.
The Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Khadkhodai also told state radio the 12-member body had begun to carefully examine a total of 646 complaints submitted in connection with the June 12 vote. Official results showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won.
He told state television one candidate had cited 390 violations, a second 160 and the third 96.
Ahmadinejad's main challenger in the election, moderate Mir Hussain Mousavi, has called for the vote to be annulled.
The council has said it is ready to recount disputed ballot boxes but has ruled out cancelling the election.
The two other defeated candidates are pro-reform cleric Mahdi Karroubi and conservative Mohsen Rezai, a former head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
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Khadkhodai said the three candidates would be able to raise their problems with the council's members tomorrow.
Complaints submitted include a shortage of ballot papers, trying to convince or force people to vote for one particular contestant and banning or expelling candidates' representatives from polling stations.
Mousavi joined thousands of his supporters in a protest yesterday.
Iranian residents in Dubai have been barred from staging protests in the emirate as law enforcement authorities are concerned that the violence in Iran could spill over into the UAE, a top police official told Gulf News.
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