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Article: Iran's hard-line Guardian Council defends disqualification of liberals as political crisis deepens
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- January 18, 2004
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ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-18-2004
Dateline: TEHRAN, Iran
Iran's hard-line Guardian Council defended on Sunday its disqualification of prospective candidates for next month's parliamentary elections, further deepening the political crisis that has prompted sit-ins and warnings by the government that it won't hold sham elections.
"We claim that the Guardian Council has constantly implemented the law. ... Hues and cries will have no impact on our interpretation of the law," Guardian Council spokesman Ebrahim Azizi told reporters.
The Guardian Council, an unelected body controlled by hard-liners, has triggered a crisis by disqualifying more than a third of the ...