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Former president leads in Iran’s assembly polls

2006-12-17

TEHERAN - Iran’s supposedly moderate according to the gullible MSM former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani is leading the polls of the Experts’ Assembly elections while the candidate linked to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in sixth place, several local news agencies reported on Saturday. Rafsanjani, one of Ahmadinejad’s main opponents, represented the coalition of supposed reformists and moderates in the Experts’ Assembly elections while Mohamad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi stood for the presidential camp. The Experts’ Assembly has the power to appoint, supervise and even oust Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who constitutionally has the final say in state affairs. Like that's going to happen. Rafsanjani and former supposed reformist President Mohammad Khatami appeared together Friday at the polling station in the Jamaran mosque in north Tehran, demonstrating their political solidarity for the future. Looks like the anti-Mahmoud Common Front. ISNA news agency reported that also in the parliamentary by- elections, reformist candidate Soheyla Jolodarzade from the Labour party is leading the polls while Hassan Ghaffouri-Fard, a former vice-president of Rafsanani, is second. The results of the municipality elections are not yet clear. Reformist activist and former deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh told the Kar news agency that the Ahmadinejad camp had lost the elections, but observers said no objective analysis of the results could be made before results were finalised. The election turnout was reportedly over 55 per cent which is a record for two rather technical elections with no direct impact on political developments.

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