Boycotts and disqualifications: how Iran's reformists are bracing for elections
by Melissa Etehad, Los Angeles Times
Feb 20, 2020
3 minutes
Mostafa Tajzadeh knows well the perilous ways of Iranian politics: He rose to the ranks of deputy minister only to be later thrown in jail as one of the country's leading reformist voices. He was banned and disparaged, and it is no surprise the he doesn't expect much to change in Friday's parliamentary elections.
"Reformists lost even before the election began," he said.
A mass disqualification of more than 7,000 of the 15,000 candidate applicants makes Iran's 11th parliamentary elections on Friday one of the least representative in the four decades since the founding
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