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- 1 2 "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ↑ هیأت رئیسه پارلمان در ۳۳ سال گذشته (in Persian), Khabar Online, retrieved 23 March 2015
- ↑ Electoral Geography of Iranian presidential election, 2005