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Iranian hard-liners lose battle over parliament leadership

Iranian hard-liners fail to prevent outspoken member of parliament Ali Motahari from being re-elected as deputy parliament speaker while parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani remains in his post.
An Iranian woman takes pictures with her mobile phone in front of a portrait of Ali Motahari, a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, during a campaign meeting in Tehran on February 23, 2016.
Iranians go to the polls on February 26, 2016 to elect a new 290-seat parliament and the powerful Assembly of Experts which supervises the work of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. / AFP / BEHROUZ MEHRI        (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

The coalition between Iranian moderates and Reformists appears to have been emboldened with the re-election of two prominent lawmakers as deputy parliamentary speakers.

In an internal ballot on May 31, lawmakers re-elected moderate conservative Ali Larijani as parliamentary speaker while outspoken member of parliament Ali Motahari and Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian were again chosen to serve as the first and second deputy of the speaker, respectively.

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