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ShareTeheran: The Guardian Council, Iran's most senior panel of election monitors, said the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters, according to a state television report two days after the country's supreme leader pronounced the ballot to be fair.
The discrepancies, the most sweeping acknowledged by the authorities, could affect some three million ballots of what the government says was an 85% turnout numbering 40 million voters.
But the authorities insisted that the discrepancies did not violate Iranian law. The Guardian Council, charged with certifying the election, said it was not clear whether they would decisively change the result.
Meanwhile, police in Teheran attacked hundreds of demonstrators with teargas and fired weapons into the air after the protesters defied a warning from the Revolutionary Guard that it would crush any further protests.
As helicopters hovered overhead, hundreds of police moved to disperse about 200 protesters gathered at Haft-e-Tir Square, the scene of huge demonstrations last week.
The Revolutionary Guard - Iran's powerful military force - ordered demonstrators to "end the sabotage and rioting" and said their resistance was a "conspiracy" against Iran.
