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Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to appear at banned rally in ...
Jun 15th, 2009 - Times Online
Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered an investigation into the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad, reversing his earlier decree that the result was fair. Ayatollah...
Iran's rivals accuse eachother of planning to rig election
Jun 11th, 2009 - Telegraph
Officials representing the two reformist candidates, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, have written to the authorities expressing concern about results being manipulated. Meanwhile...
Reformists hope Iran vote will unseat Ahmadinejad
Jun 11th, 2009 - Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's presidential candidates ended a hard-fought and bitter campaign on Thursday, the eve of an election which reformists hope will prevent hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning a second term.
Iran's Reformist Presidential Candidate Karroubi Rejects Calls to ...
Jun 9th, 2009 - VOA News
Iranian reformist presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi has rejected calls by some reformists to pull out of Friday's election to avoid splitting the country's moderate vote. Mr...
Reformist cleric says won't stand down in Iran vote
Jun 9th, 2009 - Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A reformist cleric contesting Iran's presidential election said on Tuesday he would defy growing calls to stand aside and unify moderate voters against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mehdi Karoubi...

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Inside story - What do Iran's reformists want? - 21 June 09
Inside Story asks if protests can shake the foundations of the Islamic revolution.
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Iranian reformists try new media to win votes - 09 June 09
Political reformists in Iran have long accused Irib, the state-run broadcaster, of biased reporting against their organisations. With the fate of the presidency up for grabs, many have turned ...
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Reformists in Iran play on economic woes - 24 Apr 2008
Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi reports on the reformists campaign to try and win the upcoming elections in 2009. Conservatives in Iran are looking to increase their majority in a second round of parliamentary elections ...
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Iranian reformists face trial over poll unrest - 01 Aug 09
Former Iranian ministers, vice presidents, and politicians have gone on trial in Tehran. They are among about 100 people facing charges for alleged crimes against Iran's national security ...

Reformists from WikiPedia:

Reformism is the belief that gradual democratic changes in a society can ultimately change a society's fundamental economic relations and political structures. This belief grew out of opposition to revolutionary socialism, which contends that revolutions are necessary to fundamentally change a society.

Socialist reformism, or evolutionary socialism, was first put forward by Eduard Bernstein, a leading social democrat. Reformism was quickly targeted by revolutionary socialists, with Rosa Luxemburg condemning Bernstein's Evolutionary Socialism in her 1900 essay Reform or Revolution?. While Luxemburg died in the German Revolution, the reformists soon found themselves contending with the Bolsheviks and their satellite communist parties for the support of the proletariat.