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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: December 21, 2006 |
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Final results showed Thursday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opponents have won elections for local councils in Iran, an embarrassing blow to the hard-line leader.
Moderate conservatives opposed to Ahmadinejad won a majority of the seats followed by reformists who were suppressed by hard-liners in 2004, according to final results from Friday's local elections announced by the Interior Ministry.
The vote is widely seen as a sign of public discontent with Ahmadinejad's hard-line stances, which have fueled fights with the West and led Iran closer to U.N. sanctions.
Leading reformist Saeed Shariati said the results of the election was a "big no" to Ahmadinejad and his allies.
"People's vote means they don't support Ahmadinejad's policies and want change," Shariati, a leader of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's largest reformist party told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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