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Iran TV: Partial Vote Recount Verifies Election Result

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi have protested across Iran since the vote results were initially announced.

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June 24, 2009

TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iranian state television has reported that a partial recount of the vote in the country's disputed June 12 presidential election had verified the result.

Official results released a day after the election showed hard-line President Mahmud Ahmadinejad had won by a landslide, but his main moderate challenger, Mir Hossein Musavi, said the vote was rigged and called for it to be annulled.

Iran's official English-language Press TV said in a scrolling headline: "Iran: partial vote recount verifies election result." It did not give details.

Meanwhile, Iranian riot police clashed with opposition protesters in southern Tehran but there were no casualties, a witness told Reuters. "Riot police clashed with the protesters and used tear gas to desperse the crowd," the witness said.

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