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Iran's young elite face trail by fire

By Scott Peterson

from the February 13, 2004 edition

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WOMAN UNDER SIEGE: Iranian Lawmaker Fatemah Haqiqat-Jou poses with the flag of Iran's main reform party.
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Iran's young elite face trial by fire
Iran's youngest female parliamentarian is facing an end to her days in government - and jail time.
| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
 

 
No political opponent ever accused Iran's youngest woman parliamentarian of mincing words - and she has strong ones for the hard-line conservatives who have engineered almost certain victory in next week's parliament vote.

The election campaign officially began Thursday, but Fatemah Haqiqat-Jou - along with some 2,500 other candidates - is barred from running by the unelected Guardian Council.

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