By staff writers
June 15,
IRAN'S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered an investigation into claims of fraud in last week's presidential election.
Ayatollah Khamenei told defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi at a meeting today to pursue his complaints over the election through legal means and settle the issue calmly, state television said.
It is a stunning turnaround for Iran's most powerful figure, who previously welcomed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparent landslide victory.
Mr Mousavi wrote an appeal on Sunday to the Guardian Council, a powerful 12-member body that's a pillar of Iran's theocracy.
Mr Mousavi's backers have waged three days of street protests in Tehran.
Source: The Australian
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