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Don't have any problem with the idea that Iranians were upset that reformists were not allowed to stand - what I am suggesting is that the fact that the hardliners were ultimately successful, suggests that the reformists had failed to make the kind of connection/justification with the electorate that would create victory, certainly since electoral victory was not possible by defination, a post election campaign to invalidate the election and it's results also failed to materialize - this, I am suggesting, is due to the failure of the reformists making a "significant" impact on the ideas that animate the electorate.
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There was a major boycott of the election by the reformists and their supporters to protest the Guardian Council's tyranny. The result of the election was not to do popular support for the conservatives, but because the only people who voted were the ones who wanted them to win.