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	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iran reformists denounce judges
		Iran's largely reformist parliament is essentially accusing the judiciary of perverting the course of justice
		It's an extraordinary situation in which Iran's largely reformist parliament is essentially accusing the judiciary of perverting the course of justice in a case which has already gone to trial.
		The death of Zahra Kazemi has greatly aggravated tensions between reformists and the hardliners who call the shots at the judiciary and publication of the commission's report is likely to add further fuel to the fire.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3220173.stm (431 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Iran Reformists Push for Election Delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Iran's reformists on Monday pushed for a postponement of this month's parliamentary elections in a showdown with hard-liners which has plunged the Islamic Republic into its worst political crisis in years.
		TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's reformists on Monday pushed for a postponement of this month's parliamentary elections in a showdown with hard-liners which has plunged the Islamic Republic into its worst political crisis in years.
		Reformists are objecting to the decision by the Guardian Council -- an unelected constitutional oversight body run by religious hard-liners -- to declare more than 2,000 would-be lawmakers unfit to stand in the February 20 election.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/02/02/iran_reformists_push_for_election_delay (637 words)

	CNN.com - Iran reformists put brave face on electoral defeat - Mar. 3, 2003
		Iran's reformists on Monday put a brave face on their worst electoral defeat for six years, arguing the low turnout which played a decisive factor in the local council vote was a warning to the entire Islamic system.
		Friday's local elections produced a shock reverse for the reformist camp as conservative candidates capitalized on mounting disillusionment with political infighting and the slow pace of reform to sweep the council seats in major cities.
		Reformists say their attempts to deliver Khatami's election pledges of greater social freedom, justice and democracy have been thwarted by religious hardliners who fear an erosion of Islamic values and an invasion of foreign influence.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/03/iran.election.reut (669 words)

	CTV.ca \| Iran reformists may boycott elections
		The veto is likely to provoke a boycott of the Feb. 20 parliamentary elections as reformists have warned they would not take part in polls where more than a third of the candidates had been prevented from running.
		It only pushes reformist legislators to harden their position and seriously consider mass resignations and boycotting the polls," said Mohsen Armin, a prominent reformist legislator and one of those disqualifed.
		Reformists have condemned the disqualifications as an attempt by hardliners to skew the elections in their favour.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1075123251694_30 (578 words)

	Asia Times
		Said political analyst A K Pasha, "The results are not an indication of a retreat from democracy, but a warning that the public is frustrated by the factional feuds of recent years," said Pasha, who was in Tehran as an election observer.
		Conservatives say that Iran should fight any US attack on its neighbor, not simply because it is a fellow Muslim country, but because Iraq, like Iran, has a Shi'ite majority, though Iraq is ruled by Sunnis.
		The main reformist party, Islamic Iran Participation Front, said that it is not planning to toughen its approach toward the conservatives.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC11Ak04.html (1047 words)

	What’s at stake in Iran’s election?
		He was backed by a section of Iran’s ruling class that sought to reintegrate Iran into the world, economically and politically—and to use the promise of democracy as a means to mobilize the population to break the conservatives’ hold on the state and economy.
		Meanwhile, during Khatami’s tenure, the conservatives used their control of Iran’s Guardian Council, which has the power to approve all candidates and legislation, to block reforms passed by parliament and disqualify reform candidates, while mobilizing vigilantes to physically attack the reform movement’s base—supporters among students and pro-reform journalists—on the streets.
		The “pragmatists” among Iran’s ruling elite are also open to reaching a deal with the U.S.—which has been hostile to Khatami and the reformists because of their warm relations with the European Union.
	www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/549/549_11_Iran.shtml (1026 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Iran reformists resign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		More than 80 incumbent deputies in the reformist held parliament, were disqualified from standing in Friday's polls by the Guardians Council, an unelected 12-member political watchdog run by hardliners.
		reformist MP Hossien Ansari-Rad, another reformist MP, said there was no point in deputies tackling any pending legislation - such as the national budget - given that they were deemed unsuitable to stand in the polls.
		The ministers voiced their "deep regret and disappointment that a large number of candidates were prevented from standing, thus making a genuine democratic choice by the Iranian people impossible," according to a draft statement on Monday.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/2A08DA9D-7C02-461B-9CC5-BC18BA104DED.htm (776 words)

	Strategic Insights -- The Causes and Consequences of Iran’s June 2005 Presidential Election
		However, Iran’s new president will face important political obstacles that will limit his ability to act, so it is not clear whether, and to what extent, he will be able to carry out such drastic changes.
		The reformist movement had begun to split into a radical wing that believed Iran’s Islamic regime could not be reformed and a moderate wing that still believed reform was possible.
		Radical reformists rejected these nominees, arguing that neither would be very popular and that reformists should either boycott the election or nominate a genuinely popular candidate, even if he or she would be ruled ineligible.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2005/Aug/gasiorowskiAug05.asp (4500 words)

	Iran: Majlis reformists take on the money launderers
		Iran has central strategic significance in the former but also serves as a transit route to the latter as a gateway to Europe, Turkey and Russia.
		Iran is among those whose legislation is assessed on anti-money laundering and combating of terrorist financing.
		Iran is well aware of the EU’s political and economic importance, especially because of the current US administration’s coercive attitude towards Tehran.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/may/1179.html (2609 words)

	Iran: Reformists Outraged Over Exclusion Of Candidates From Presidential Race
		Iran's Guardians Council, a conservative election watchdog, yesterday cleared just six of more than 1,000 hopefuls to stand in the first round of the country's presidential election on 17 June.
		The reformists have called the disqualification of their leading candidate an illegal and unfair decision and said they will boycott the elections if the Guardians Council does not reverse its position.
		Reformists have accused the Guardians Council in the past of being politically biased toward the conservatives.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050523-rferl02.htm (1031 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Conservatives and Reformists in Iran Prepare for Parliamentary Elections
		Conservative and reformist forces in Iran are girding for parliamentary elections in February 2004.
		Leading reformists, who are reeling from a string of tactical setbacks, appear willing to engage in a confrontational campaign in what may be a last-ditch effort to remain politically relevant.
		Iran’s premier reformist political movement, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), appeared to made a radical departure from traditional politics during its congress on October 20.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav102203a.shtml (829 words)

	Iran reformists barred from poll
		Iran's hard-line Guardian Council Sunday rejected all reformists who registered to run in presidential elections, and leaders of the reform movement threatened to boycott the vote.
		Karroubi is a hard-liner-turned-reformer who has lost his popularity among the youth and reformists because of his increasing support of Khamenei and his hard-line policies.
		With the reformist movement severely weakened, Rafsanjani is seen as the most credible force to stop hard-line allies of Iran's supreme leader from seizing the post of president.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/may/23iran.htm (445 words)

	Iran's Reformists Link Defeat to a Split From the Poor - New York Times
		TEHRAN, July 3 - Five years ago, Iran's political reformists controlled the presidency and had just won an overwhelming majority in Parliament by promoting an agenda that promised to curtail the role of clerics in the government and to spread democracy, human rights and the rule of law across the nation.
		Presidential election day 2005 turned Iran's political world upside down, when voters handed the role of reformer to a religious conservative who supports the clerical-control system: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 49, the appointed mayor of Tehran who ran as on outsider with a platform that called for cleaning up corruption and providing economic relief to the poor.
		Ahmadinejad prepares to build a government in collaboration with his conservative allies, the withered remnants of Iran's reform parties are struggling to plot a strategy for a return to political relevance.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/07/07/international/middleeast/07iran.html?ex=1278388800&en=1eb12b5dbec62d0c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (852 words)

	IRAN DEFEATED REFORMISTS ARE DIVIDED OVER WHAT TO DO NEXT (Iran Press Service)
		The organizational framework for the reformist movement, the Second of Khordad Front, is considered by many Iranians to be passive, ideologically divided, and far too accommodating to the Islamic Republic's authoritarian establishment.
		The reformists have no influence over the hard-liners, and the people who voted for Khatami in 1997 will not again accept an insider who makes positive gestures internationally, but fails to fulfil expectations domestically.
		The authoritarian camp has been able to obstruct reformist legislation, close more than 100 independent newspapers and magazines and repress political activists; it has the resources to halt the drive toward transparent and accountable government, without a popular mandate.
	www.iran-press-service.com /ips/articles-2004/august/iran_reformists_22804.shtml (993 words)

	IranExpert:Iran's embattled reformists to meet on political strategy
		Iran's main reformist party, which backs embattled President Mohammad Khatami, is to hold an extraordinary summit Friday, aimed at rallying its members amid an increasingly hostile political battle between moderates and conservatives.
		Reformists want to stop that before local elections next year, parliamentary polls in 2004 and presidential elections in 2005.
		Other reformists have called for a mass resignation, a move that would plunge the Islamic republic into a major crisis, while others have suggested a compromise could be reached.
	www.iranexpert.com /2002/politicalstrategy11december.htm (613 words)

	CNN.com - Iran's reformists predict they've passed elections test handily - February 18, 2000
		TEHRAN, Iran -- Reformists in Iran predicted Friday's parliamentary elections would bring historic changes in the country after millions of mostly young voters turned out in numbers so large that polling hours had to be extended.
		Iran does not traditionally announce voter turnout, but state-run Tehran radio said it was high.
		And reformists expected this election to strengthen his hand in parliament and help him keep his promise to ease social restrictions.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/02/18/iran.elections.04 (870 words)

	IRAN’S REFORMISTS’ LAST-DITCH ATTEMPT TO THWART CONSERVATIVE FOES
		WASHINGTON (EurasiaNet-PS) Reformist forces in Iran are making what some observers have described as a last-ditch effort to thwart the country’s increasingly defiant conservative minority, which controls the key levers of power in the Islamic republic.
		The reformist appeal targeted three un-elected institutions in particular: The Council of the Guardians (CG), the Expediency Council, and the judiciary.
		Iran’s reformists are also facing a crisis of their own, observers say.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2003/Jul-2003/reformists_versus_conservatives_18703.htm (1157 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Iran - Reformists barred from Iran election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		ANGRY Iranian reformists led by the president launched a fight for their political survival yesterday after thousands of liberal candidates were barred from running in next month’s parliamentary elections.
		The action of the hardline Guardian Council, described by one leading reformist as a "coup d’etat", set reformists and conservatives on a collision course that could force the government to abandon the 20 February vote.
		Reformist parties dominate parliament but MP Reza Yousefian said he was among more than 80 reformists, out of 290 members of parliament, who had been banned from seeking re-election.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=386&id=37362004 (873 words)

	Iran's Reformists Take on 'Neo-cons' - World Opinion Roundup
		Offering Iran EU guarantees of security and paltry concessions is no way to persuade the Iranian regime to pursue the path it is pursuing either in the nuclear field or in the encouragement of the Hezbollah or other organisations labelled terrorist.
		March 10, 2006 03:14 PM Iran and Iraq are both failed states and the region needs a new center of democratic gravity, a pivot of stability, and a new foundation to expand the waves of stability in the region.
		Iran Focus is the media arm of MKO(aka:PMKI,NCR,NCRI,etc.)organization who is advocating violent regime change in iran and are also responsible for the assasination of U.S military advisors in iran in the 70's.(that is why they are on the terrorist list of the u.s gov.).
	blog.washingtonpost.com /worldopinionroundup/2006/03/iran.html (2792 words)

	Iran Focus-Iran Reformists Barred From Presidency - Iran (General) - News
		TEHRAN, Iran - All reformists who registered to run in next month's presidential elections were rejected by Iran's hard-line constitutional watchdog, which approved only six out of the 1,010 hopefuls, state-run television reported.
		The presidential election comes as Iran is facing international pressure over its controversial nuclear program, trying to convince the United States and Europe that it is not seeking to develop weapons.
		With the reformist movement severely weakened, Rafsanjani is seen as the most credible force to stop hard-line allies of Iran's supreme leader from seizing the post of president - although the savvy politician has changed his stripes frequently in the past.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=2167 (674 words)

	Women in Iran to Boycott Elections, Seek Options
		With Iran's reformists barred from standing in parliamentary elections today, female leaders are taking stock and looking for options beyond electoral politics to carry on their cause for equality.
		The reformist parliamentarians managed to win the right for single women to study abroad, to raise the legal age for marriage from 9 to 13 for girls (though they had proposed 15), to defeat an attempt to limit the percentage of female students entering university and to improve custody provisions for divorced mothers.
		In the main reformist party, the Participation Front, male parliamentarians were inclined to ignore the views of their female counterparts and to suggest that women's issues should be given a lower priority.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1720 (1423 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		PRAGUE - Iran's protesting deputies, making one last attempt to salvage themselves before Friday's elections, have asked openly in a letter whether Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was behind the decision to ban reformist candidates from running in parliamentary elections.
		Some observers say the reformist deputies - who earlier staged a three-week-long sit-in to protest the council's electoral ban - are now ratcheting up the pressure in an attempt to regain the trust of Iranians disillusioned by the failure of the reformist movement.
		Now the reformists say the council, with the tacit approval of Khamenei, have abused "the most basic right of the people: to choose and to be chosen".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FB20Ak04.html (853 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Iran's reformists threaten to quit
		The threat came as reformist lawmakers continued a sit-in in Iran's parliament for a third night to protest the mass disqualifications ordered by the Guardian Council, a conservative-dominated panel that screens candidates under Iran's theocratic system.
		Khatami, who won Iran's last two presidential elections on a pro-reform platform but is widely viewed as ineffectual after six years in office, had irked some reformists by calling for calm and only legal challenges to the "senseless" decision by the Guardian Council.
		The disqualification crisis appeared to reinvigorate reformists who openly feared losing control of the elected government in the Feb. 20 elections even with a full slate of candidates.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/01/14/irans_reformists_threaten_to_quit (509 words)

	IranExpert:Iran’s reformists not dead despite defeat in polls
		He said a long-term strategy for the reformists to build a solid movement was to build opposition from within society by securing alliances with the youth who, although disillusioned, might not be interested in politics.
		Gerecht said Iran’s reform movement was still in its infancy, and the world had yet to see its “silver or gold age.” To a certain extent, Iran’s internal and external threats had been eliminated with the reformists out of power and Iraq no longer constituting a threat, Brumberg suggested.
		Major change in Iran’s foreign and domestic policies did not seem to be hovering on the horizon, but given the difficulty in predicting Iranian behavior, the future was still a mystery that even prolific experts were waiting to discover the panel said.
	www.iranexpert.com /2004/reformist28february.htm (750 words)

	War on Terrorism - A New Approach To Iran
		Not all reformists in Iran favor rapprochement with the United States and not all conservatives object to the idea.
		Iran is a key energy producer situated adjacent to the major transit routes for oil and gas from Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
		Iran is already a party in good standing to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions and well as the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/iran.cfm (2922 words)

	Iran Focus-Iran’s defeated reformists pin hope on dissident ayatollah - Iran (General) - News
		Pundits see the cryptic manoeuvring over the wedding as a bid by Khatami and his allies to enlist the support of the elderly ayatollah in the face of the ultra-conservative faction’s apparent determination to rout its rivals within the clerical regime.
		Others share the view that the “insider reformists” — as some call the Khatami faction - are showing all the signs of a spent force with little prospects of recovery.
		Khamenei seemed to be aiming at his critics within the clerical regime when he told a meeting of ultra-Islamist Bassijis in Tehran on Wednesday that “the Americans are using political and cultural tools and their stooges to change the identity of the Islamic Republic, but America will receive its biggest defeat from the Bassijis”.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=3479 (812 words)

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