FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
In previous parliaments, he has been elected as a representative from Kerman and Tehran. He is considered a key member of the conservatice alliance, and was considered a possible candidate for the post of the speaker or the leader of the conservative faction in the parliament. He later refused to run for the post of speaker possibly because of a deal made inside the conservative alliance, so he decided to run for the post of vice speaker. He became the First Vice Speaker for one year on June 6, 2004 with 188 votes out of 259. The other running canidate for the post of vice speaker was Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard, a representative from Qazvin who became the second vice speaker with 173 votes.
MohammadRezaBahonar, a "prominent conservative tipped as a possible new head of the Iranian parliament", says that "he is open to eventual talks with US legislators." Bahonar also opines: "The question of relations with the United States is not all fl and white.
MohammadRezaBahonar, one of the top three politicians in the country's religious right wing, also denied plans to impose puritanical Islamic rule on Iran after the polls, but signaled a tough line against truculent reformists.
Bahonar made his remarks in an interview Wednesday with AFP as he campaigned in his native town of Kerman in southeastern Iran, whose two Majlis seats are presently held by reformers.
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