| The AP reports that according to final results today, conservatives "consolidated control of Iran's legislature in run-off elections," but at the same time, opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also gained strength in the Parliament. Reformists in Iran "favor greater democracy, closer ties with the West, and reducing clerical powers in Iran" and made a respectable showing even after most of their candidates were barred. |
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