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Iran: Rouhani calls on Council to open up list of candidates
Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani called for democratic reforms yesterday to permit barred candidates to run in next month’s elections.
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