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Khatami: `deadlock' has arrived

DEAD END Conservatives' exclusion of reformists from elections has caused a worsening political crisis in Iran

AFP , TEHRAN, IRAN

Janati also asserted that the list of approved candidates would guarantee free and fair elections.

"For each seat in the Majlis there are 19 candidates," Janati argued, blasting the interior ministry for "behavior not in line with religious democracy."

The official news agency IRNA, however, has pointed out that in some areas there is only one candidate per seat -- and that the candidates are conservatives.

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