Iran's government threatens to quit

Iran's reformist government threatened to resign amid denunciations today of a hard-line panel's disqualification of general election candidates who are allied with the reformist president.

In a deepening of the nation’s political crisis, Vice President Mohammad Sattarifar said: “If the government feels that it can’t fulfil its responsibilities in protecting legitimate freedoms, such as defending the rights of the nation for a free and fair elections, then it does not believe that there is any reason to stay in power.”