Iran's Mousavi vows to continue fighting election 'fraud'

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi yesterday renewed allegations of fraud in June's disputed presidential election and called for protests to continue against the result.

"People, your friends are committed not to betray you on the path of fighting liars and fraudsters," he said in a statement carried on his official website, kaleme.com.

"With respect to this commitment, the only way that I recommend is to continue on the green path that you have followed in the past months ...with small and large gatherings, campaigns and questions," Mousavi said.

His call came two days after Iran's conservative-dominated parliament united behind President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to approve the vast majority of his new cabinet, reportedly after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei intervened.

Mousavi - who came second in the June 12 poll - dismissed hardliner Ahmadinejad's re-election as a "shameful fraud" as hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured on to streets in protest.