THE AYATOLLAH PASSES ANOTHER TEST:

300 Candidates Are Reinstated in Iran (Agence France-Presse, 2/17/08)

Iran on Saturday reinstated an additional 300 mainly reformist candidates who had been disqualified from standing in next month’s parliamentary elections, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The Guardians Council, Iran’s hard-line vetting body, which has the final say on who is permitted to run in the March 14 polls, had already reinstated 280 of them.