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Iran Clerics to Meet Challengers as Protests Continue

source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124523854750623001.html

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TEHRAN – The Guardian Council, one of Iran's top oversight bodies, said Thursday it would invite the country's three unsuccessful presidential challengers to a meeting, while protests again filled the streets of the capital.

The move by the council was the latest in a series of unprecedented concessions to the losers in June 12 elections, which officials said were won in a landslide by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mir Hossein Mousavi and two other presidential challengers have alleged vote rigging, a charge Mr. Ahmadinejad has denied.

The council didn't specify a time, except to say the meeting would be early next week. The announcement came amid another day of extensive protests Thursday afternoon in Tehran.

"The presidential candidates will be invited to the meeting to be held early next week to express their ideas and ask any questions in the presence of the Guardian Council's members," the council's spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei was quoted saying on state media.

State media said the Guardian Council, which earlier in the week had said it would consider recounting some ballots in contested districts, was already reviewing a report on the balloting and hearing testimony from election supervisors.

Tens of thousands of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining Mr. Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes.

Many in the crowd wore green wristbands and carried flowers in mourning as they filed into Imam Khomenei Square, a large plaza in the heart of the capital named for the founder of the Islamic Revolution, witnesses told the Associated Press. Demonstrators marched silently until they arrived at the square, where some chanted "Death to the Dictator!" and "Where are our votes!"

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7 comments // Iran Clerics to Meet Challengers as Protests Continue

  • csmonut
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    • It looks like Iran is ready for a new direction. With a very high unemployment rate, 20+% I believe, and an economy that has tanked, I think they are quite right in wanting a new direction.
      It will be interesting to see what the outcome will be.

      An aside here:
      I seen a commercial from some outfit that calls themselves...Coalition Against a Nuclear Iran, or some such thing. Their commercial kept showing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the speaker was referring to the Ayatollah, who Ahmadinejad is not.
      I guess they should get their people and facts straight before they start airing commercials.

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  • Robroy1
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    • Throw in a few tazerings and they can give America's police a run for thier money! America's cops won' be out done by any third world country no siree! They can kill, beat and tazer better than them all, just watch the news, you'll see the proof! And this is only on pot smokers, just think what they would do to a real criminal, God forbid, I shudder to think!

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