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Lawmakers Mohammad Naeimipour, seated left, and Mohammad Qomi, seated right, count the votes as other lawmakers look on during a session of parliament in Tehran Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001. Iran's reformist parliament approved two hard-line candidates Tuesday for a powerful oversight panel after essentially being forced to vote on nominees it already had rejected, a distasteful resolution for reformists but one that clears the way for President Mohammad Khatami's swearing in ceremony. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that Khatami could not be sworn in for second term of office until parliament accepted the hard-line judiciary's nominees for a powerful constitutional watchdog.
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