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Article: Registration Ends for Iran's Experts Assembly Elections
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 5, 1998
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A total of 396 candidates have registered for the election of
Iran's Experts Assembly which determines the country's supreme
leader, local daily Zan (Women) reported on Saturday.
The battle for the control of the powerful body between the
moderate and conservative camps is expected to intensify as the
elections date, set on October 23, is nearing.
For the first time since the formation of the Experts Assembly in
1983, nine women registered for the election.
President Mohammad Khatami, a leading figure in the left-wing
Society of Combatant Clergymen (SCC), has said he has no intention to
run for the election.
But the majority of the SCC, the largest political gathering of
the left wing, have ...