Iran to arbiter poll results

Iran: An Iranian Guardian Council announced the creation of a special commission to arbitrate complaints regarding the presidential elections.

The Commission integrated by six renowned political, social and religious figures in the country should prepare a report on the elections of June 12, which resulted in street protests in Teheran and other localities.

Both former contenders have 24 hours to name their delegates for this council who will supervise a recount of about 10 percent of ballots, indicated Kadkhodaei to canal PRESS TV while Mohsen Resaei, third contender defeated by Ahmadinejad, decided to withdraw accusations of alleged fraud. Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won the election but demonstrations of discontent were promoted by his main rival, former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

According to the spokesman of the Guardian Council (GC) Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the main electoral authority of the Persian nation that the commission will also count with representatives of Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the other candidate who contests the results.

Former chancellor and current advisor of foreign affairs of the supreme leader, Ali Akbar Velayati and former parliament president Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, as well as the dean of the Law Faculty of the Shahid Beheshti Goudarz Eftekhar-Jahromi University are members of the commission.

Other members are chief justice Qurban-Ali Dorri-Nadjafabadi, deputy Mohammad Hassan Abutorabi, and the representative of the supreme guide of the Martyrƒ?(tm)s Foundation, Mohammad-Hassan Rahimian, among others.

Teheran, Prensa Latina