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Article: Barred Iranian candidates may be reinstated
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- February 5, 2004
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Barred Iranian candidates may be reinstated
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Tehran, Iran -- After weeks of chaos over the disqualification of
thousands of parliamentary candidates, Iran's supreme leader agreed
to a formula Wednesday that is expected to reinstate most of those
barred.
The move handed reformists a major victory in their election
battle with hard-line Islamic clerics.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's order that a reformist-led ministry
review the disqualifications made by the Guardian Council marked a
compromise effort to resolve the standoff over the Feb. 20 vote,
Iran's worst political crisis in years.
Government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh told ...