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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, while reformists are just hoping to gain enough support to get their voices heard.
Reformists are hopeful that the ‘failing economy’ in Iran will encourage people to vote for them.
82 of 290 seats are being contested in a system that is stacked against them. The best the reformers can hope for is to gain from their opponents’ mistakes.

We look at the chance of a crisis if the country’s election results are not resolved.

Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker reports on the victims of an attack by the supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.

Jonothan Marikita was attacked as he slept in his home with his wife and one year old child who were also hurt.

Marikita was attacked with an axe, maimed and left unconscious to die.

Takesure Chingamawhe, another MDC supporter who was also attacked by supporters of Zanu-PF is lucky to be alive.

Both victims spoke exclusively to Al Jazeera from his hospital bed in Harare as elsewhere in the capital 200 other supporters of the Opposition MDC party were released from prison.

Many of those released from prison have nowhere to go because their homes have been burnt down.

Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker reports on the victims of an attack by the supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party.

Jonothan Marikita was attacked as he slept in his home with his wife and one year old child who were also hurt.

Marikita was attacked with an axe, maimed and left unconscious to die.

Takesure Chingamawhe, another MDC supporter who was also attacked by supporters of Zanu PF is lucky to be alive.

Both victims spoke exclusively to Al Jazeera from his hospital bed in Harare as elsewhere in the capital 200 other supporters of the Opposition MDC party were released from prison.

Many of those released from prison have nowhere to go because their homes have been burnt down.

Zimbabwe - a country paralyzed by political uncertainty and now caught in the midst of a wave of post election violence.

The opposition claims at least 10 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured, mostly during what they say has been a campaign of intimidation by supporters of Robert Mugabe.

It is a claim his ruling ZANU-PF party has denied.