February 4, 2004

Leader of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), Iran's biggest reform party Mohammad Reza Khatami, delivers his speech during the 6th IIPF congress in Tehran Monday Feb. 2, 2004. Iran's largest pro-reform party announced Monday it will boycott Feb. 20 elections, with its leader saying the party has lost hope that a free and fair parliamentary vote can be held as scheduled. Mohammad Reza Khatami, the party leader and brother of the Iranian president, said the Islamic Iran Participation Front would not field any candidates because thousands of liberal candidates have been disqualified from the polls by hard-line clerics of the Guardian Council. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

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