Thousands of both pro- and anti-government demonstrators began massing in the streets here on Tuesday, increasing tensions a day after clashes left at least seven people dead during the largest antigovernment demonstration since the Iranian revolution.
But despite the enormous pressure on the government to answer opposition charges of vote-rigging in last Friday’s presidential election, the country’s powerful Guardian Council said Tuesday that it was prepared to order only a partial recount, according to state television and news reports.
The leading opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, and other opponents of the declared winner, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reportedly rejected the Guardian Council’s decision. They have held out for a new election to be held.
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Recount Offer Fails to Quell Political Tumult in Iran
Thousands of both pro- and anti-government demonstrators began massing in the streets here on Tuesday, increasing tensions a day after clashes left at least seven people dead during the largest antigovernment demonstration since the Iranian revolution.
But despite the enormous pressure on the government to answer opposition charges of vote-rigging in last Friday’s presidential election, the country’s powerful Guardian Council said Tuesday that it was prepared to order only a partial recount, according to state television and news reports.
The leading opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, and other opponents of the declared winner, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reportedly rejected the Guardian Council’s decision. They have held out for a new election to be held.
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