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Tehran's clash of ideals

Updated on 10 June 2009

By Lindsey Hilsum

Millions of Iranians prepare to go to the polls in hard-fought presidential elections. Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tehran.

Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi (Credit: Getty)

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his election rivals of using Hitler-style smear tactics against him.

It is the last day of increasingly bitter campaigning in the poll, which is pitting the abrasive president, a Holocaust denier and aggressive proponent of Iran's nuclear programme - against the moderate reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi.

In this close-fought contest he has accused Ahmadinejad of lying about the state of the economy.

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