during the voting by the supervisors selected by the Guardian Council, while the supervisors should have remained impartisan according to the election law. Also, the reformist newspaper Shargh has pointed to an announcement by Movahhedi Kermani, the official representative of the supreme leader in Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, mentioning "vote for a person who keeps to the minimum in his advertisements and doesn't lavish", which uniquely pointed to Ahmadinejad. Some of the controversies involve activities of the Guardian Council such as the publishing an opinion poll before the election giving Ahmadinejad front-runner status. It also announced the partial results of the election on the day after the election, putting Ahmadinejad on the second rank while he was still in the third rank in the partial statistics published by the Ministry of Interior, which led to President Khatami going to the Ministry several times and explicitly asking the council to not announce any more partial results. References External links Guide to Iran's presidential polls, from BBC News Angus Reid Consultants - Election Tracker The text of the Iranian law for presidential elections (in Persian) ISNA report on Mousavi's declination, reported by Karroubi (in Persian) Situation on 6 December (in Persian) Run off results from the BBC Electoral Geography of Iranian presidential election, 2005 Iran newspaper on the elections atmosphere after Mousavi'e declination (in Persian) 2005 2005 elections in Iran June 2005 events in Asia