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Iran council rules out new elections following fraud investigation

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday that they would not hold a new presidential election, maintaining that there was no evidence of any major fraud or irregularity in the contested results. Following its investigation, the country's Guardian Council for the Constitution rejected protesters' requests to abandon the results and start over, asserting that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election by such an overwhelming majority that any minor inconsistencies would not have meant read more

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).