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Großer Unmut über die Wahlen vom Februar unter großen Politikern der Reformer.
Folge : heftige Kritik, Rücktritte, Absage zur Kandidatur zur Präsidentschaftswahl..

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Blow to Iran's reformers by Moussavi's refusal

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - ©2004 IranMania.com

LONDON, Oct 13 (IranMania) - The man Iran's embattled reformist movement had hoped would be the Islamic republic's next president, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi, has rejected calls for him to stand in next June's elections, a senior offical said.

According to a top reformist official, Moussavi put an end to weeks of lobbying by his pro-reform backers -- including incumbent President Mohammad Khatami -- by stating he had no wish to return to the political fray, the official news agency IRNA reported late Tuesday.

"Unfortunately Mir Hossein Moussavi, the Prime Minister from the glorious Khomeini era, has refused to be a candidate in the presidential elections," said Mehdi Karoubi, the former reformist parliament speaker.

No explanation was given.

With Khatami's second and final term in office due to come to an end in June 2005, the reformist movement had been rallying behind Moussavi as the best hope of dragging it out of a political wilderness.

Reformists are badly isolated after most of their candidates were barred from contesting February's parliament elections. Conservatives and hardliners now control most public positions except for the executive.
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Abtahi named presidential advisor

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - ©2004 IranMania.com

LONDON, Oct 13 (IranMania) - President Mohammad Khatami Tuesday accepted the resignation of Vice-President for Legal and Parliamentary affairs Mohammad Ali Abtahi and later appointed him presidential advisor, Iran's State News Agency (IRNA) reported.

Abtahi resigned in protest over the impeachment last week of then Minister of Roads and Transport Ahmad Khorram.

He had earlier this year tendered his resignation in protest at the Guardian Council`s barring of many reformist candidates from running in the parliamentary elections in February, a move which he termed as "undemocratic."
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Vizepräsident tritt zurück
Reformpolitiker Abtahi will nicht mehr mit Konservativen zusammenarbeiten

Teheran - Der iranische Vizepräsident Mohammed Ali Abtahi ist am Dienstag zurückgetreten. Als Grund nannte er, dass er nicht mit dem von den konservativen Kräften beherrschten Parlament zusammenarbeiten könne. Abtahi, ein Vertrauter von Präsident Mohammed Khatami, hatte erstmals im Februar seinen Rücktritt eingereicht, der damals aber noch abgelehnt wurde.

Abtahi war als Vizepräsident für rechtliche Fragen und für die Beziehungen zum Parlament zuständig. Er betonte, er werde Khatami weiter beraten und stehe zur Reformpolitik.
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Abtahi dagegen ist vielen Konservativen seit längerem ein Dorn im Auge. Es war nämlich der bisherige Vizepräsident, der den Fall einer in iranischer Haft verstorbenen iranisch-kanadischen Fotojournalistin Zahra Kazemi ans Licht brachte.
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