New Iran reformist party eyes legislative polls
A new Iranian political party with social democratic leanings opened its first congress Thursday, aiming to lead reformists to victory in the Islamic republic’s legislative elections next year./ Reformists suffered a serious setback after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected president in 2009 in polls that losing candidates Mir Hussain Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi claimed were fraudulent./ The authorities crushed massive demonstrations that erupted in protest, both men were placed under house arrest and their parties banned./ Reformists ...
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