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Iran candidate review ordered
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/02/05 10:36  Shanghai Daily

  Iran's supreme leader has ordered a review of the thousands of disqualified candidates for the legislative elections, a government spokesman said yesterday.

  Ayatollah ali Khamenei's move is a bid to defuse a crisis that has seen two major organs of state lock horns over the elections due on February 20.

  The reformist government of President Mohammad Khatami has refused to stage the polls unless the disqualifications are overturned.

  The hard-line Guardian Council has refused to withdraw its disqualification of about 30 percent of the 8,200 people who applied to run in the polls.

  In comments later yesterday, Khamenei rebuked public servants who had threatened to have nothing to do with the elections and accused reformists of bullying.

  The news of Khamenei's review order - his second in less than a month - came a day after he was reported to have rejected a request by President Khatami for the elections to be postponed.

  Spokesman abdollah Ramezanzadeh said Khamenei agreed to the review in a meeting with Khatami on Tuesday.

  "We hope to achieve a final result as soon as possible that would allow us to hold an election with a huge turnout," Ramezanzadeh said.

  Ramezanzadeh's announcement was the first in days that suggested the elections might go ahead as planned. On Tuesday, scores of reformist lawmakers called for the elections to be postponed. Also, Iran's provincial governors said in a statement posted on the Interior Ministry's Website that they would not hold the elections - suggesting that hard-liners would have to use the military to stage the polls.

  The guardian Council, which is appointed by Khamenei, has disqualified more than 2,400 people from the polls. Reformers have protested the disqualifications as an attempt to fix the elections in favor of conservatives. Hard-liners have denied any political motives, arguing that the disqualified lacked the criteria to stand. But the disqualified include 80 incumbent legislators.

  Ramezanzadeh said the review would be conducted by the Intelligence Ministry.

  A cabinet minister indicated that most of the candidates, but not all, were likely to be restored to the ballot by the review.

  "A large number are expected to be reinstated," said Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, a pro-reform minister, yesterday.




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