Iran's Reformers Still Optimistic about Elections.

From: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: February 20, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Feb. 20--BABOL, Iran -- Pro-democracy leaders in Iran face huge -- but possibly not insurmountable -- obstacles to maintaining their majority in Friday's parliamentary elections.

A sizable voter turnout in this city near the Caspian Sea, and in some two dozen other small cities that escaped a ban on liberal candidates, could allow the reformers to keep their majority in the 290-seat parliament.

The odds, nonetheless, ...

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