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Iran’s Defeated Mousavi To Submit Proposal After Meeting Committee Members
30 June 2009
Defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi met members of a committee set up to examine Iran's June 12 election and he is expected to present a new proposal on the issue, semi-official Fars News Agency said on Monday. The news agency quoted a spokesman of Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, as saying Mousavi met committee members late on Sunday and was supposed to submit his proposal on Monday. The committee was set up by the Council to examine complaints about the election. The Fars report did not give any details of the proposal from Mousavi, who says the election was rigged and wants it to be annulled. The Council has offered a partial recount of the election, but has repeatedly ruled out cancelling it. "We are still waiting to receive this offer and examine it in this special committee," Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodai said, Fars reported. Another Iranian news agency, Mehr, said Mousavi's proposal had already been submitted to the committee and suggested it was related to the method of vote recounting. "Our provincial offices are ready to recount (votes) based on a method proposed by Mousavi," Mehr quoted Kadkhodai as saying. Mousavi has earlier rejected any partial recount of the election, calling for its annulment. He also says a "national arbitration committee" should examine the election issue and the street protests. A partial recount of the vote had started in Iran. The 12-member Guardian Council is to give its final verdict on the election and this could happen later Monday. It has repeatedly ruled out annulling the vote, saying it has found no major irregularities. Rafsanjani: “Suspicious Elements” Try to Create Rift Btw People and System Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani stated on Sunday that the Supreme Leader’s decision to extend the deadline for the Guardian Council’s investigation of the presidential election results was “valuable and effective”. “This effort by the Supreme Leader was a very valuable and effective (step) for gaining the confidence of the people in the election results,” he said. Last week, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei agreed to extend the deadline for investigating the validity of the election results. In a letter sent to the Supreme Leader earlier, Guardian Council Secretary Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati asked for an extra five days to review the candidates’ complaints in order to clear up “any possible ambiguity”. Commenting on the recent unrest over the election results, Rafsanjani said that it was part of a “complicated plot” devised by suspicious elements who aim to create a rift between the people and the system. He added that everyone should take steps to remove obstacles and resolve the problems. “Misconduct should not cause animosity and division among the people.” He said, “Whenever the people have vigilantly entered the scene, these plots have been foiled.”
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