[AdmSmith]

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?ArchiveNews=Yes&NewsCode=21821&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (AFP) -- A number of Iranian Ministers and vice presidents have submitted their resignations in protest at the mass disqualification of candidates from next month's election, and will quit the cabinet unless hardliners back down, Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi said Wednesday.

"A certain number of ministers and vice-presidents have resigned," Abtahi told reporters after a meeting of the reformist government.

But he said those concerned would stay in their jobs to await the outcome of the re-examination of its candidate blacklist by the Guardians Council, the conservative political watchdog that has moved to bar large numbers of reformers from contesting the February 20 parliamentary polls.

"It is natural that they wait for the outcome of the work" of the Guardians Council, Abtahi said, without naming the cabinet members who had decided to resign.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

How many have resigned? And will they renege, if they learn that their disqualification has been overturned?

[nuconvert]

This whole drama seems like a way for the Guardian Council to rid themselves of a few trouble-makers, but get the public more interested in voting. They knew the people were getting fed-up with all of them and planning on staying away from the polls. So why not stir things up and get people emotionally charged? Votes for the reformists, looks better than no voting at all. They just went over-board disqualifying too many. But that fits the definition of fanatic, doesn't it?