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Dec

2011

9:18am, EST

Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.
Parvin Ahmadinejad,center, sister of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks to the media while registering as a candidate for Iran's 2012 parliamentary election at the Interior Ministry building in Tehran, Dec. 30. Candidates began registering for Iran's parliamentary elections in March, the first litmus test of the clerical establishment's popularity since the 2009 disputed presidential vote.

Ahmadinejad's sister registers as a candidate for parliament

The Turkish Weekly reports:

Parvin Ahmadinejad, who is currently a member of Tehran City Council, told the Mehr News Agency that she is fielding her candidacy for the March parliamentary elections from Garmsar (Semnan Province).

On the sitting parliament's attempt to impeach the president, she said that "our president is a justice-seeker and I do not agree with his impeachment." Continue reading...

From AP:

The March 2 elections will be the first nationwide balloting since Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009, which the opposition said was heavily rigged. That vote set off months of near-daily protests in which hundreds of thousands took to the streets in support of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi who they claimed was the rightful winner.