Iranians are voting in a second round of elections which are expected to confirm conservative dominance of the country's 290 seat parliament.
Eighty two seats are up for grabs - seats in which no candidate managed to win 25% of the vote in the first round. Conservatives won around 70% of the seats in last month's first round. But analysts say there are splits emerging in the conservative faction and many are critics of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the run up to the vote, Ahmadinejad has been involved in several angry exchanges with other Iranian officials. Bush meets with Calderon, Harper over NAFTA ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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