Opposition leader Gets the imminent elections in Iran Bill: report

Tehran (Reuters) - an Iranian opposition leader since February under house arrest accused the Islamic establishment plan has to hold the "Yes" parliamentary elections in March his website Sahamnews reported on Monday.

Registration began candidates on Saturday March 2 voices, that the first litmus test for the spiritual leadership public standing since a disputed presidential election 2009, triggered months of unrest.
Mehdi Karoubi was together with his wife, Fatemeh, imprisoned, when he urged to gather supporters for a Tehran rally in support of the riots in the Arab world. His wife was later out allows for medical treatment, but he remains under house arrest.

"Officials vote believe in people and they prepare themselves for a rubber-stamp election," his wife quotes him during their weekly meeting, according to Sahamnews.

Candidate will be an account one last week and then the participants be reviewed elections watchdog for their political and Islamic qualifications through the hard-line Guardian Council.

The Council has completed hundreds of reformist candidates in the past from participating in elections. A grandson of late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the Council for a parliamentary vote 2008 running is prohibited.

"The authorities want to repeat what they did in the presidential election of 2009.... disqualify candidates and fill the ballot boxes with fake votes and an atmosphere of fear in this country" Karoubi of the woman quoted him as talking as his Web site reported.

The election of 2009 was suspended followed by eight months of opposition protests, which, while ultimately suppressed, Iran in its deepest internal crisis since the Islamic revolution pitched, and divisions within the ruling elite.

The 73 year-old Karoubi and former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, who also under house arrest with his wife, the 2009 vote against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Were figureheads of the protests, according to the elections by many who believed that the vote to back President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been tampered with. Iranian authorities deny the charge and the protests as a bid have foreign-backed the Islamic government system undermines shown.

Thousands of people, including senior reformers, were according to the 2009 stir up unrest vote recorded. Since then, most of them have published was, but more than 80 people have for up to 15 years has been arrested and five to death were convicted.

Analysts say that Ahmadinejad's allies want to win to find the presidential election in 2013 a majority at the next general elections.

Reformist leaders said that no separate list of candidates will present reform-oriented groups, because the basic needs "free and fair" vote not have been observed which.

Authorities fear that a low turnout would be the establishment of legitimacy issue, and so hard-line conservative rulers have urged voters to take part in the March elections.
(Reporting by Mitra Amiri;) (Editing by Mark Heinrich)