TEHRAN, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Iran started a partial
recount of the June 12 presidential election votes on Monday, Iran's state-owned
satellite TV al-Alam News reported.
Iran's Guardian Council, the top legislative body,
had agreed to recount a random 10 percent of the votes after the disputed
election caused large scale demonstrations in the country.
The recount is expected to be completed by Monday
afternoon and the result will be declared within 24 hours, the Arabic-language
al-Alam television said.
The two defeated candidates -- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
and Mehdi Karroubi -- have filed complaints over irregularities and demanded an
annulment of the 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 Mousavi got 33.75 percent.
The other two candidates -- Karroubi and former
Revolutionary Guards chief Mohsen Rezaei -- got less than 2 percent of the total
ballots, he said.
TEHRAN, June 27 (Xinhua)
-- Iran's Expediency Council on Saturday stressed that legal ways were the only
means to settle any differences and disputes over the recent presidential
election, the official IRNA news agency reported.
In a statement issued after its Saturday morning session,
the Expediency Council urged the Guardians Council (GC), which is charged with
supervising elections in the country, to carefully and fairly investigate all
claims and complaints about the June 12 election. Full story
TEHRAN, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Guardian Council
spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodai said the council will set up a special commission
to draft a report on the June 12 presidential election, local ISNA news agency
reported on Friday.
"The Guardian Council decided to set up a special
commission, including political and social figures and representatives of
candidates who protest (vote results), to draft a report on the election,"
Kadkhodai was quoted as saying. Full story
TEHRAN, June 26
(Xinhua) -- Iran's Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodai said that the
10th presidential election on June 12 was the healthiest one held in the country
since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"After 10 days of investigation, no major irregularities
were found besides some minor ones that are usual in every election," Kadkhodai
was quoted as saying, "we didn't see any fraud in the election." Full story
TEHRAN,
June 25 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi
urged his supporters to "continue legal protests," a statement posted on the
website of his banned newspaper Kalemeh Sabz said on Thursday.
"The continuation of protests within the framework of the
law and according to the rules and principles of Islamic Revolution is the main
strategy which will guarantee the achievement of your goals," the statement
quoted Mousavi as saying. Full story
TEHRAN, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed to extend the deadline for the probe into the
complaints over the country's presidential election, Iran's Press TV reported
Tuesday.
Khamenei accepted the Guardian Council's request to extend
by five days the deadline for the investigation into the complaints over vote
irregularities, Press TV said. Full story
