Conservatives and allies of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stood to keep their hold on parliament, as Iranians voted in elections in which reformists were barred from running.
Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0430 GMT), with state radio pronouncing that, "Today, the Iranian nation once again will show its political maturity."
Some 4,500 candidates nationwide are running for parliament's 290 seats in Friday's vote, in which an estimated 44 million Iranians of over 18 years of age are eligible to vote.
Ahead of the vote, the Guardian Council -- an unelected body of clerics and jurists -- disqualified around 1,700 candidates, mostly reformists. Those barred from running were judged insufficiently loyal to Islam or the revolution.
You show "political maturity" by banning people from running for office? You may want to take a look around, the average Iranian is sick of you, and you do have a history of violent overthrow. I'm not saying that your "students" should violently overthrow your government (hint, hint), I'm just saying you should watch your hypocritical and lying stances (please see the nuclear issue).
Travis
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