Iran's election headquarters not to release ballot box details

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TEHRAN, June 18 (Xinhua) - Iran's election headquarters has rejected a request by the defeated presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei to release details of the ballot box results, Iran's satellite Press TV website reported Thursday.

"The law does not reserve such a right for candidates," we will act within the framework of the law, head of Iran's Electoral Office Kamran Daneshjou was quoted as saying.

In a letter to the Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli, Rezaei complained about what he called "the ministry's extraordinary delay in presenting the detailed statistics of ballot boxes to his representative."

"Despite the repeated requests, I have submitted and the letter that I have sent to the president, I have not received any information about the final count of the ballot boxes, although it is a primary right of every candidate," he wrote in his letter to the Interior Minister on Wednesday, Press TV said.

"We expect you to release ballot box information by the end of today's working hours. Otherwise, I would be forced to change the recount request I have sent to the Guardian Council," said Rezaei, adding that "hiding details" would reinforce prospects of possible "vote-fixing."

Iran's Guardian Council has received a number of complaints from Iran's two other defeated presidential candidates, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, over the results that have been referred to as "frauds."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ordered the Guardian Council, the top legislative body of the country, to investigate the claims of fraud in the presidential election held on June 12.