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Iran's lawmakers rebuke ruling Islamic clerics over elections ban.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
TEHRAN, Iran _ Iran's reformist lawmakers castigated their nation's most powerful council of clerics in a legislative session carried live Sunday on state-run radio, then quit en masse to protest the religious rulers' sweeping ban of liberal candidates in this month's parliamentary polls.
"They turned our Islam into the Islam of the Taliban," resigning lawmaker Rajab Ali Mazrouie charged during the unprecedented and insulting rebuke of the hard-line Guardian Council. "Elections whose results are predetermined violate the rights and ideals of the nation."
But the political drama at the Majlis, or parliament, ended quickly, with most of the ...
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