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According to a report by local satellite Press TV, the council's spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaie said that the three defeated candidates have submitted a total of 646 complaints which are carefully studied.



Kadkhodaie has also said that candidates of Iran's recent presidential election have been invited to its upcoming meeting session which is to be held within the next few days, the officialIRNA news agency said in another report on Thursday.



"It was decided at the end of the meeting that candidates of the 10th presidential election (the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohsen Rezaei)would attend the council's session next week to express their views and ask their questions in the presence of the organization's members," Kadkhodaie was quoted as saying.



Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ordered Iran's Guardian Council, the top legislative body, to investigate the claims of "fraud" in the recent presidential election.



Source: Xinhua

