Iran's Guardian Council has said it is ready to recount disputed votes from Friday's presidential poll. In a complete reversal of policy the Council said the votes could be recounted in areas contested by the losing candidates which could effectively allow challenges to all the votes.
Moderate candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has contested President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, alleging widespread fraud sparking 3 days of mass protests. Monday's protest involved hundreds of thousands of people and was one of the largest since the Iranian revolution 30 years ago and at least seven people were killed. Dozens of opposition activists have been arrested since the protests began. New demonstrations have been called by supporters of both President Ahmadinejad and Mr Mousavi and are due to take place in Vali Asr Square in central Tehran.
Meanwhile several foreign news organizations have complained that Iranian authorities were blocking their reporters from covering the protests. German public television channels ZDF and ARD said their reporters were not allowed to broadcast their reports, while the BBC said the signals of its Persian services were being jammed from Iran. The Dubai-based Arab news channel Al-Arabiya in Tehran was forbidden from working for a week and Dutch broadcaster Nederland 2 said its journalist and cameraman were arrested and ordered to leave the country.
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