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A student holds a picture of a candidate to Iran's parliament, Jamileh Kadivar, and a poster of jailed former interior minister Abdollah Nuri, a reformist, during an electoral meeting in Tehran 15 February 2000. A record number of women candidates are standing in this week's Iranian parliamentary elections, putting political and legal equality with their male counterparts firmly on the Islamic Republic's political agenda.
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