The conservatives, who support Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, took at
least 200 of the 290 seats in the parliament AP
Iran’s hardliners have claimed victory in a heavily engineered
election that drew the lowest voter turnout since the Islamic Revolution of
1979.
Out of 14,000 candidates, 6,850
were barred from running by the Guardian Council, the country’s powerful
theocratic leadership, leaving mainly staunch pro-regimers in the contest.
That, along with the regime’s firing of a missile at a Ukrainian passenger jet
last month, in which 82 Iranians were among the 176 killed, spurred those who
would have backed reformers to abstain.
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