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northernlights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:59 AM
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Al Jazeera: Iran body to hear vote complaints
Iran's most senior legislative body has said that it will meet the three defeated candidates from Friday's presidential election to discuss their complaints about the poll.....

....A spokesman for the Guardian Council said that the 12-member body would meet the candidates on Saturday, though the body had already begun the "careful examination" of a total of 646 complaints submitted in connection with the June 12 vote.

"This will enable them to raise issues and points they wish to discuss with the members of the council, and also provide a direct contact with the candidates," Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaie said....


....On Friday, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, the country's supreme leader, will lead prayers at the Tehran University campus....

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200961894741378976.html




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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:07 AM
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1. keep posting, please :) thank you
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:14 AM
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2. Good news from a solid source
Thanks for that.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:18 AM
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3. BBC mention it now too
The top legislative body has invited the three defeated candidates to a meeting on Saturday, state radio says.

Mr Mousavi, fellow reformist Mehdi Karroubi and conservative Mohsen Rezai had been asked to attend an extraordinary session of the Guardian Council to "discuss their issues with the members", a spokesman said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8106292.stm
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