Mudslinging intensifies as Iranian election nears

TEHRAN, Iran -- Two days before voters go to the polls, opposition campaigns in Iran's increasingly raucous presidential election campaign warned of vote-stealing, and decades-old political rivals slung more mud at one another.

At a massive rally in western Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused his rivals - chiefly former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi - of exaggerating the country's economic woes and said his enemies were trying to take revenge for his election four years ago.

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