Monday, June 20, 2005

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Partial recount in Iran election

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Partial recount in Iran election: "'Take seriously the danger of fascism,' Mr Moin said. 'Such creeping and complex attempts will eventually lead to militarism, authoritarianism as well as social and political suffocation in the country.'
Two newspapers were closed down overnight by Iran's hardline judiciary for planning to print a letter of complaint by another reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who narrowly lost out to Mr Ahmadinejad.
Such persistent allegations of vote-rigging are unprecedented since the revolution and the closure of newspapers is a clear warning to local media not to touch the story, says our correspondent. "

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