TV: Iran's supreme leader agrees to extend vote probe deadline

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TEHRAN, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed to extend the deadline for the probe into the complaints over the country's presidential election, Iran's Press TV reported Tuesday.

Khamenei accepted the Guardian Council's request to extend by five days the deadline for the investigation into the complaints over vote irregularities, Press TV said.

In a letter to the supreme leader, the election watchdog has asked for more time to remove any ambiguity over the disputed election.

Local daily Tehran Times has reported that the Guardian Council would announce its final position on the complaints about the election results on Wednesday.

Earlier Tuesday, Press TV quoted Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaii as saying that the Council has rejected any annulment of the election results because it had found no major irregularities in the election.

On June 13, Iran's Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won 62.63 percent of the total ballots, while his main rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi got 33.75 percent.

File photo shows that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at the Friday prayers congregation on Tehran University campus, on June 19, 2009. He has agreed to extend the deadline for the probe into the complaints over the country's presidential election.  (Xinhua Photo)