11.   The ministry, which is supervising the poll, says final results may not come for days, especially in larger cities like Tehran.

12.   The United Nations is to supervise the poll with the aid of an unspecified number of international police advisers and poll monitors from six countries.

13.   They want fresh polls to be supervised by a neutral caretaker government.

14.   However, officials from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is supervising the poll, have privately suggested the threats are more political than real.

15.   Israel has insisted so far on a joint Israeli-Palestinian committee to supervise the poll.

16.   But Israel has insisted so far on a joint Israeli-Palestinian committee to supervise the poll.

17.   Diplomats said said he had warned the OSCE that he would refuse to supervise the poll if it were held at the end of November.

18.   The opposition also insists the poll should be supervised by the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity.

19.   The results were read out by Sir Kenneth Scott, deputy mission head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the agency supervising the poll.

20.   The signal for the meeting to proceed was given Sunday when the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which supervised the polls, finally certified the results.