Iran Screens Possible Election Candidates, By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, AP
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's Interior Ministry began screening some 8,200 prospective candidates Sunday for February legislative elections, state-run Tehran radio reported.
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Shaul Mofaz was only six when his family emigrated from Iran to Israel. After completing his high school education at the Nahalal agricultural school, he joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1966 and volunteered in the Paratroops Brigade,...
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The list of candidates approved by the ministry must be ratified by the hard-line Guardian Council, however, and, in the past, the council has disqualified those seen as opposing the absolute rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
