Iranian Officials At Odds Over Call To Bar Religious Minorities From Elections
Legislatiors said Iran's parliament speaker dismissed a call by the head of the Guardians Council to prevent members of religious minorities from running in city council elections, but the influential council's spokesman asserted that the prohbition is mandatory. The contradictory stances left it unclear whether candidates from religious minorities in the predomnantly Shi'ite Muslim country would be barred from the municipal elections, which are being held alongside the presidential vote on May 19. Ghasem Mirzayi, a lawmaker and member of ...
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