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Iranians vote in parliamentary elections
By Anna Fifield and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran

Iranians go to the polls on Friday to vote for a new parliament, in an election dominated by the economy, as spiralling inflation sends the price of goods such as vegetables and detergent soaring and unemployment remains rife. But the vote is also being viewed as something of a preview for next year’s presidential election. The results will contribute to the supreme leader’s decision on whether to back Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the radical president who pledged to improve living conditions for the masses, for a second term, analysts say. With many reformist candidates excluded from running, the election is largely a competition between various factions in the fundamentalist camp – between those who support the president and those who see his governing style as unnecessarily confrontational and his domestic management of the economy as irrational.Some analysts say the election is not so much between reformists and conservatives, but between competence and populism.“There is a split between the ordinary man who listens to Ahmadi-Nejad saying he is interested in the welfare of the people, that people are the lifeblood of the revolution,” said one diplomat in Tehran, “and the urban, educated elite who want to be treated with more respect, who are wondering how Iran has managed to mess up this oil bonanza.”There are more than 4,500 candidates running for 290 seats in 207 constituencies, and political factions have re-grouped under new names and coalitions for this election. The conservatives are grouped into the United Fundamentalist Front, which includes staunch supporters of Mr Ahmadi-Nejad, and the Inclusive Fundamentalist Coalition has criticised the government’s economic and foreign policies. The biggest reformist coalition, Mosharekat, comprises 18 groups and is aligned with former president Mohammad Khatami, while the Etemad-e Melli or National Trust party, is run by former parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karroubi. Campaigning has centred around exhortations to vote, rather than pledges of political intent, but many Iranians say they will not go to the polls on Friday. “I’m not going to vote – it’s all a big lie,” said Ali-Reza, a 25-year-old university student with long hair. “I don’t want to participate in our regime’s crimes, a regime that is killing the young people. If we vote we are approving their actions.” But at the Behest-e-Zahra cemetery in conservative southern Tehran, where families tend to the graves of those killed in the Iran-Iraq war, the mood was very different.“Yes of course I’m going to vote,” said Mohammad, who was sitting with his family beside the grave of his son, who was 18 when he died. Although he had not yet decided who to vote for, Mohammad approved of the current administration. “I think Ahmadi-Nejad’s a good guy. The only problem we have here is that everything has become very expensive. If we didn’t have that problem everything would be good,” he said. Indeed, the economy is the central issue in Friday’s election, with inflation spiralling beyond 20 per cent and many people struggling to buy for basic goods.Although official figures put inflation at 20 per cent, many people feel it is much higher as they struggle to pay for basic necessities. Many economists say the government’s populist policies, using increased oil revenues for short-term expenditure rather than long-term investment, have driven liquidity rates to record levels and stoked inflation. Preliminary results will start being released on Saturday but it could take until Wednesday for an official count.