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Article: Iran Run-Off Campaigning Begins
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- April 27, 2000
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AP Online
04-27-2000
Iran Run-Off Campaigning Begins
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian candidates started campaigning today for the second round of voting in legislative polls that have set off a fierce confrontation between hard-liners and reformists.
In recent days, 14 newspapers have been closed and two leading pro-reform journalists detained as hard-liners resist loosening social, political and cultural restrictions. Supporters of President Mohammad Khatami's reforms have responded with peaceful protests, with their leaders warning them not to give the hard-liners a pretext for harsher measures.
Run-off elections will be held May 5 for 66 seats that were not decided in the February polls ...
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