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| Iranian Hard-Liners Veto Election Bill | |
| 2004-01-26 | |
Iran's hard-line Guardian Council vetoed a bill on Sunday that would have curbed its power, throwing elections into doubt in a historic confrontation between reformers and conservatives. The Guardian Council rejected a bill reinstating thousands of candidates that it disqualified earlier. The veto is likely to provoke a boycott of the Feb. 20 legislative elections by reformers. The bill that parliament passed earlier Sunday sought to overturn the disqualifications. Reformists have condemned the disqualifications as an attempt by the hard-liners to skew the elections in their favor. "We've been informed that the Guardian Council has vetoed the legislation on the grounds that it contradicted the constitution and Sharia (Islamic) law," Mohsen Mirdamadi told The Associated Press. Mirdamadi heads the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the parliament and is one of the lawmakers disqualified from running again.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Look, after what happened in Hungary in 1956, Cezchoslovakia in 1968 and in Iraq in 1991, I suspect that the administration would rather not see an uprising in Iran. We're simply not ready yet to go in and liberate the place. That is why there is such a conspicous(sp?) lack of support for the students. R-dog, I suspect the administration is painfully aware of the possibility. Remember though that the current bunch in the whitehouse tends to play things close to the chest. And they're good at political manuvering. I'm not too worried. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2004-1-26 10:11:51 AM |
| #2 If the Iranians don't revolt now, they never will. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-1-26 8:48:03 AM |
| #1 I hope GWB reads this post, because this is exactly what's in store for Iraq if the new gov't there is turned over to the mullahs. |
| Posted by: Rivrdog 2004-1-26 1:28:27 AM |