Iranian politicians: "elections not fair"

Yesterday over 500 Iranian politicians and intellectuals announced that they will not take part in the election in June. Saying that the elections cannot possible be fair if the “Guardian Council” is allowed to take away peoples right to choose.

The conservative “Guardian Council” screens the candidates before the elections and can block candidates; last election the council only approved 10 of 814 candidates. This year 1010 persons have registered as candidates, a record. 89 of these candidates were women, who are automatically disqualified by the constitution.

The politicians and intellectuals wrote "People are being called to participate while many of the most important circles of power and the appointed people have complete control on all the avenues of executive power."