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To: AdmSmith
Good Question but it's a little complicated here:
Remember that Interior Ministry which is responsible to hold the election is a part of this regime. Our problem is the entire regime itself not parts of it, I have said this before.
Well, In fact Ministry of Interior can't publish a list of the candidates. They have no power to do so and they have to work and coordinate with Guardian Council of the Islamic republic.
14 posted on 01/12/2004 12:47:45 AM PST by Khashayar
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To: Khashayar
And the convenient part my friend, is the Guardian Council can block any constitutional amendment Parliament wishes to pass that would abolish the unelected Fayagh and their own existence. So Iran is really at an impasse since its clear there's no way to peacefully change the system, and as the old saying as it - power concedes nothing without a demand and never will.
17 posted on 01/12/2004 12:51:02 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Khashayar
from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/65837/1/.html
This time the Guardians Council had systematically rejected reformists. In some areas, notably the northeastern city of Mashhad, all reformists had been struck off the voting lists and only conservatives were left.

Left contesting Tehran's 30 seats, for example, are just 10 reformists.

According to reports, the number of disqualified candidates numbered up to half of the 8,149 people who registered with the interior ministry last month to stand in the elections.

And of the 210 reformists currently in the 290-seat Majlis, 85 have seen their candidacies rejected, including Behzad Nabavi, who along with the president's brother is a deputy Majlis speaker.

Also believed to have been rejected were outspoken leftist Mohsen Armin and female MP Elaheh Koulaiee, who is close to Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's campaign for women's rights.

Jafar Kambouzia, a reformist MP from the southeastern city of Zahedan who was also on the blacklist, said the Guardians' Council had simply "rejected all those candidates who could win votes", including the "quasi-total of IIPF candidates across the country".

Question: I think that it is time for a confrontation. Is this list of 8,149 candidates published? If it is in the public domain why not spread it on the internet together with comments at each name if it was rejected by the Guardian Council.

Then at the election pick your own candidate, either the election commission will publish the actual result of this election, or say that of the x million votes y % was disqualified as they voted for candidates that not was approved by the GC. This will do for the next step in the revolution.
25 posted on 01/12/2004 1:06:43 AM PST by AdmSmith
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