IRAN - Mar 8 - Qom Highlights Iran Power Battle.

From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: March 15, 2008 | Copyright information

Iran's main fundamentalist coalition recently presented its choice of candidates for next week's parliamentary election to the Society of Scholars of Qom Seminary, the oldest clerical organisation in the city and the seat of Shi'ite religious learning in the country. The society agreed by consensus on two of the six names and added a third of their own, producing a final list for the three Qom seats made up of staunch conservatives but not extremists. But the days when the society'...

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