Iran's Supreme Leader extends vote probe deadline

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed to extend the deadline for the probe into complaints over irregularities in the presidential election.

Iran's Press TV reported on Tuesday that Ayatollah Khamenei had accepted the Guardian Council's request to extend the deadline by five days.

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

The Tehran Times had reported that the Council would announce its final position on the complaints about the election results on Wednesday.

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

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivers his sermon in front of a picture of the late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini, during the Friday prayers, at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 19, 2009.(AP Photo/Hayat News Agency, Meisam Hosseini)