TEHRAN -- Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejeii said on Wednesday that conditions and circumstances are quite favorable for holding parliamentary elections.

If anyone intends to disrupt the elections, the Intelligence Ministry would confront him seriously, Mohseni Ejeii told reporters after the cabinet meeting.
He said his ministry is not responsible for the screening.
On candidates’ growing concerns over the vetting mechanism, he said, “You should not imbue people with what is desired by the enemies.”
Asked name those who are supported by the U.S. President George W. Bush, the minister said it is clear that there are people in the country who eye on the U.S. support.
Aref on top of reformists’ list
“Former first vice-president Mohammad-Reza Aref will definitely be on top of the reformists’ candidate list,” Hedayat Aqaee of the Servants of the Construction Party told Mehr News Agency on Wednesday.
“But we release the final list after the vetting,” he noted.
“Since some reformist figures did not sign up for the March elections, we faced some problems in arranging our list,” Aqaee pointed out.
200 candidates have criminal records
Up to now, the result of inquiries about the candidates’ records shows that 200 of the registered have criminal records, an elections inquiry commission said.
This number includes all those evolved in criminal cases even those who have been acquitted, Hossein Zebhi told the Mehr News Agency.
Zebhi added, “Although all these candidates have not been convicted, we have the obligation to report their records to the Interior Ministry.”
The final decision about the candidate’s qualification would be made by the Interior Ministry and the Guardian Council, he explained.
Hidden agenda behind Bush’s support for reformists
Chairman of the election commission of the reformist coalition Abdolvahed Musavi-Lari rejected U.S. president’s support for the reformists, saying that one should ask why, as the elections date approaches, the hated U.S. president makes such a remark that is echoed in the society.
“When a hated element in a society supports a group or movement actually he did not mean support to that group and we should pay attention to the aims behind the scenes,” the former interior minister told a press conference on Tuesday.
The former minister predicted that the number of reformist MPs in the next parliament would be far more than the current parliament.
Larijani not on top of conservatives’ list
An informed source who asked not to be named dismissed Tuesday reports that Ali Larijani, the representative of the Supreme Leader in the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), would be on top of the United Fundamentalist Front.
He said that such remarks are just speculations.
Earlier a story broke out by Parviz Soruri, a conservative figure within the fundamentalist front, that Larijani would top the list.