TEHRAN, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Guardian Council, which is charged with supervising elections in the country, has rejected any annulment of the June 12 presidential election, Iran's satellite channel Press TV reported Tuesday.

    Spokesman for the Guardian Council Abbas Ali Kadkhodai was quoted as saying that the council had found no major irregularities in the election and rejected annulling the results of the presidential election.

    On June 13, Iran's Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won 62.63 percent of the total ballots, while his main rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi got 33.75 percent.

    The other two candidates -- former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi and former Revolutionary Guards chief Mohsen Rezaei -- got less than 2 percent of the total ballots.

    After the official declaration, all the three defeated candidates filed complaints over irregularities in the election, while Mousavi and Karroubi have demanded an annulment of the election.

    Mousavi's supporters have participated in massive rallies in Tehran and other cities over the past days.

    The Guardian Council said on Saturday that it was ready to recount up to 10 percent of the ballot boxes randomly in the disputed presidential election, state television reported.

Iran arrests 5 European spies: report

    TEHRAN, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Iran's security forces have arrested five European spies, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday.

    Iranian security forces identified and arrested five European spies during the Saturday unrest in Tehran, the report said.

    "According to the dispatched reports, two German, one British and two French spies have been arrested during the unrest in Tehran on Saturday," Fars said without elaborating the details.   Full story

Iran: armed vandals shoot people in Tehran's violence

    TEHRAN, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Tehran's prosecutor general's office said on Monday that some armed vandals opened fire on civilians and killed people in Saturday's violence in Tehran, local English-language Press TV reported.

    "A number of Tehrani citizens were shot dead by unknown vandals Saturday night," the office was quoted as saying. Full story

Iran police arrests 457 in Tehran violence: TV

    TEHRAN, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Iran's police have arrested 457 people in the post-election violence that erupted Saturday in Tehran despite warnings against illegal gatherings, local English-language Press TV reported on Monday.

    "Iran's police arrested 457 people who have caused insecurity, disrupted public order and clashed with police around Tehran's Enqelab square on Saturday," the police said in a statement. Full story

Iran's Mousavi renews call for cancellation of election result

Iran's presidential election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi speaks during a news conference in Tehran June 12, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    TEHRAN, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran's former Prime Minister, defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi renewed his call on Saturday for cancellation of last week's disputed presidential election.

    In a letter to Iran's Guardian Council which was published on his campaign website, Mousavi cited "irregularities in election" as the reason for a nationwide cancellation of the election result.  Full story

Iran lashes out at Western interference in election affairs

    TEHRAN, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Iranian officials have lashed out at some Western countries, particularly Britain and the United States, over their "interference" in Iran's election affairs as the country has been hit by post-vote unrest.

    In his speech to foreign diplomats in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was "highly critical of some Western countries, specifically France, Germany, Britain and the U.S., for their inappropriate, illogical and interfering words."    Full story