Iranian clergymen vote in the parliamentary and Experts Assembly
elections at a polling station in Qom, 125 kilometers (78 miles) south
of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (AP)
The Associated Press, Tehran, Iran
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Iran’s official news agency says the country’s constitutional
watchdog has ratified results of the country’s parliamentary elections.
IRNA
says the Guardian Council on Wednesday approved election results of 207
constituencies, including Tehran, where a reformist-moderate bloc won
all 30 seats of the city in the house.
In
February, reformists and moderate allies of President Hassan Rowhani won
the majority in voting for the 290-member assembly and a clerical body
charged with choosing the country’s next supreme leader.
Iran is to hold runoff elections for nearly a quarter of the seats in parliament on April 29.
The
results were seen as a major setback for hard-liners opposed to the
landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last year, which lifted
international sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear
activities.
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