Prominent reformists back in Iran election
Prominent but as yet unnamed reformists are among more than 1,400 initially rejected candidates now eligible to contest Iran’s parliamentary elections on February 26, a government official said Tuesday. The new approvals raise the potential for a change in the balance of power in Iran’s parliament, a prospect that looked impossible after thousands of contenders were barred in a first round of vetting. Anyone seeking to become one of Iran’s 290 MPs must satisfy the Guardian Council, a conservative-dominated constitutional watchdog of clerics ...
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