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	Iran
		Conservative candidates won a majority of seats in the February Seventh Majlis election that was widely perceived as neither free nor fair, due to the Council of Guardians' exclusion of thousands of qualified candidates.
		In screening for the February Seventh Majlis elections, the Guardian Council ruled approximately 2,500 of the over 8,000 prospective candidates ineligible to run, including 85 sitting reformist deputies; this was one factor leading to conservatives winning a majority of seats.
		Elections that were widely perceived as neither free nor fair were held for the 290-seat Majlis in February.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41721.htm (15962 words)

	A Great Election Day for Iranian Nation
		The leader said the seventh Majlis elections are very significant and sensitive because the enemies are mustering all their might in the vain hopes of discouraging people from going to the polls.
		While visiting the election headquarters of the Interior Ministry and casting his vote, President Mohammad Khatami said whatever the results of the election they should be accepted by everyone.
		He said he is sure the people would vote in the election using their political insight and their knowledge about the candidates, charging the executive and supervisory officials to protect people’s votes strongly.
	www.mehrnews.com /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=60532 (1187 words)

	Iranian Majlis election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections to the Majlis of Iran were held on February 20, 2004.
		A runoff was held on May 7, 2004, which filled thirty-nine remaining seats where no candidate gained sufficient votes to win in the first round.
		The runoff elections for Tehran has been postponed to be held with the Iranian presidential election of June 17, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_Majlis_election,_2004 (470 words)

	NPR : Q&A: Iran Presidential Election Preview
		An Iranian woman passes by a billboard of presidential candidate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran, June 15, 2005.
		Iranians under 30 make up more than two-thirds of eligible voters, and they have become deeply alienated by the restrictions on social life in the Islamic Republic.
		In this election campaign, all the candidates have had to loosen their style to appeal to the youth vote, which is the decisive factor.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4705530 (1756 words)

	DAWN - Features; 06 March, 2004
		Iranian conservatives, however, maintain that more than 60 per cent voted and the drop in voter turnout was insignificant.
		After the elections the reformists maintained that the conservatives had gained the maximum of power but at the cost of maximizing their distance from the people.
		Some stated that while this election represented the end of the Khatamist reforms it did not represent the end of the reformist struggle and suggested that even with their reduced numbers in the Majlis they would continue to work for reform.
	www.dawn.com /2004/03/06/fea.htm (2872 words)

	"Iran after the Elections" (February-March 2004)
		Those reformists who chose to boycott the election were still discredited by the fact that they had been unwilling to take such strong measures until the four-year-old conservative onslaught finally threatened their own re-election.
		The broadest implication of the parliamentary elections is that they have dramatically underscored the failure of Iran's mullahs to graft Islamist ideology with the institutions of a modern democratic state.
		For all the elections the Islamic Republic has held over the past 25 years and all the gesture politics and sloganeering revolving around the theme of "Islamic Democracy," alternations of power in the Iranian government are still determined in secret by a handful of clerics.
	www.meib.org /articles/0402_iran1.htm (2138 words)

	Conservatives win controversial Iranian polls - Feb. 27, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TEHRAN - Religious conservatives were Wednesday crowned as winners of Iran's parliamentary elections, securing a firm majority in the assembly after polls that most of their incumbent reformist rivals were barred from contesting.
		The result was hardly a surprise, given that most reformists were fllisted ahead of the polls by the Guardians Council, an unelected political oversight body run by hardliners fiercely opposed to any liberalization of the 25-year-old clerical regime.
		But it was nevertheless a devastating blow to the reform camp, which swept to power in 2000 with a huge majority in the Majlis but saw its efforts to democratize the country blocked by more powerful hardliners in the Guardians Council, judiciary or other right-wing bastions.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/feb/27/wnw_3-1.htm (598 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Majlis elections: Shahla Azizi
		No one here doubts that the elections for the seventh Majlis (Parliament) will be fake-the kind we had during the Shah's regime twenty-five years ago.
		Despite the long sit-in by reformists in the parliament, and the attempt at mass resignation by them and many ministers, the elections are going to take place on time.
		All the huffing and puffing by reformists about the dire need for free and competitive elections, which, in any other setting might have led to a regime change or at least widespread reform, fizzled-out with the order of Khamenei and the quick and expected kowtowing of Khatami, the President and Karroubi, the House Speaker.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2004/February/Elections (1298 words)

	I shall rescue you: Neither British nor American Imperialism
		Having mutual respect for one another, peer groups, classmates, neighbours, work colleagues, and other fellow Iranians shall be the cornerstone of the New Education System, by means of which all social skills such as "odaabe moasherat va lozoome gozardan e ehteraam be deegaran e hamnoo" shall be taught and learned.
		All people who earn their living via these means shall be employed by the gov't according to their skill and inclinations, guaranteeing a good wage/salary to them so as to make sure they will not become impoverished.
		While Iranians are a nation which considered to be the super race on the planet earth.
	www.parstimes.com /opinion/2004/moeen_manifesto.html (2470 words)

	American Iranian Council - Update
		Current polls suggest that the election is expected to continue into a runoff race, which will take place at least a week later than the first round of elections, most probably on June 24, 2005.
		If the issue is oppression and pressure against the Iranian people and the Iranian regime, this means this is the beginning of so many pressures that we have to confront in the future, and we don't go for that.
		The mission of AIC is to be a constructive force, in cooperation and partnership with other organizations, in bringing the United States and Iran together, involving the Iranian-American community in the dialogue, and bringing attention to social and political conditions in Iran.
	www.american-iranian.org /pubs/aicupdate/03242005.html (2623 words)

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	Mohammad Ali Abtahi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abtahi was the Iranian Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs from September 2, 2001 to October 12, 2004.
		He had resigned from his post three times after the Iranian Majlis election of 2004, because of "differences in political viewpoints with the paliament's majority", and finally, on October 12, 2004, his resignation was accepted by President Khatami.
		Before his vice presidency, Abtahi was the Iranian president Mohammad Khatami's Chief of Staff from July 10, 1997 to September 1, 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammad_Ali_Abtahi (393 words)

	Those Iranian election results in full [The Rockall Times]
		The recent elections in Iran have proved a terrible blow to those Western governments hoping for the further liberalisation of the Middle-East's favourite sun-kissed paradise.
		Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Not actually a member of the Majlis, Khamenei nevertheless hold the reins of power in Iran on account of being the unelected supremo of the whole country with control of the armed forces.
		Mohammad Khatami: Considered a moderate on the Iranian sliding scale of clerical extremism — which puts him somewhere between a bit of light Kurd-shooting and full-blown Jihad — Khatami started his career on the Tehran stand-up circuit, where he was an instant hit with the punters.
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk:30001 /2004/02/23/iranian-elections.html (832 words)

	Doxagora: America, Considered.
		This Majlis election, the seventh since the revolution, is arguably the least free since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988.
		A resolution to the clashes between Hindus and Muslims over the ownership of the Ramjanambhoomi/Babari Masjid complex seem further away as Muslims refuse to advance with talks until the elections are over with, arguing that the issue is too important to leave the impression of political influence.
		In Iran, controversial elections from which moderates and reformists were excluded left Iranians wondering if they should vote at all; the official Iranian news agency now says over 20 million votes were cast in Friday's election, down roughly 15% from the last election...
	www.doxagora.com /archive/2004_02_22_doxy_archive.html (2811 words)

	The Iranian election - a hidden opportunity for reformers? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therefore, the man in the street is unlikely to put his life in danger by yet again supporting the reformists and taking action against this decision.
		The conservatives were aware of this public mood when they decided to disqualify their rivals from elections.
		I think the recent protests by the reformists about their ban to stand for parliament, is more of a power struggle than really fighting for people's basic rights.
	www.cabalamat.org /weblog/art_186.html (484 words)

	Iranian Democrats Establish a United Front - December 7, 2004 - The New York Sun
		WASHINGTON - After years of bitter internal divisions and a series of crackdowns from the Islamic republic, the Iranian democratic opposition in the last two weeks has organized a united front to push for a referendum on the powers of the supreme leader.
		In the months before the Iranian hard-liners rigged the election to the Majlis, Mr.
		Sazegra arrived in London in March for surgery on his ailing heart, a condition worsened when he was in an Iranian jail and led a 79-day hunger strike.
	www.nysun.com /article/5858 (1375 words)

	Iranian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karroubi has explicitly alleged that Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, was involved.
		The election in Iran will begin on 09:00 local time (04:30 UTC) and the closing time of the voting polls will be at 19:00 (14:30 UTC), but may be extended by the Ministry of Interior and this is very good.
		But the most unpredictable was the disqualification of conservative Reza Zavare'i, a former member of the Guardian Council and an approved presidential candidate for two previous elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_presidential_election,_2005 (2965 words)

	Port 80 :: February :: 2004
		One or two parliamentarians may resign here or there in melodramatic protests, but to have over a third of the parliament decide that the current system is useless is something entirely out the ordinary.
		Combine that with the fact that the leading reform party may announce a boycott of the polls at the upcoming elections, and you have a large segment of the population that has decided that the current state institutions are not acceptable venues for problem solving.
		With the Iraqi government destroyed, and the Iranian government teetering towards radical reform or possibly collapse, the US may find itself at the center of a major power vacuum.
	port80.blogsome.com /2004/02 (918 words)

	Here and Now : Iran Reformers Boycott Election - 2/19/2004
		Iranians go to the polls tomorrow to elect representatives to the Majlis, the Iranian Parliament.
		After weeks of extraordinary political stand-offs between hardliners and reformers, Iranians are reportedly fed up with both camps, and some experts think turnout tomorrow will be paltry, around ten percent.
		Iran's moderate president, Mohammed Khatami, practically begged Iranians yesterday not to boycott the elections, saying that would only help the hardliners take over the government.
	www.here-now.org /shows/2004/02/20040219_5.asp (229 words)

	IranExpert:Low turnout in Iranian election after banning of 2,300 candidates
		Turnout in Iran's parliamentary elections appeared to be low yesterday, despite a pronounced effort by conservatives to mobilise the vote.
		The conservative "Coalition of the Builders of an Islamic Iran" is expected to take the parliament, known as Majlis.
		Most voters who turned out appeared to be diehard conservatives or religious people who had been told it was their duty to vote.
	www.iranexpert.com /2004/election21february.htm (339 words)

	Potestas
		karubi the current speaker of majlis also resigned from second pull of election and said there is no need for him to stay more in race.in first pull he stood as 31.from teheran 30 people go to majlis.
		extention of time in election had been to order of supreme leader.despite interior ministry's opposition a call from his office to state tv had extended election for 4 hours.
		those who attened in election are saying they didnt do it for regime they did it cause they were afraid they would have been reproached in work.
	potestas.blogspot.com (1277 words)

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