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Iran governors threaten to block polling
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Iran governors threaten to block polling
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Tehran, Iran -- Iran's provincial governors escalated the crisis
over next month's legislative elections by declaring they would not
allow polling unless conservative clerics reverse their
disqualification of hundreds of reformist candidates.
"All provincial governors have announced unanimously that, under
present circumstances, there will be no possibility of h...