Shortly after the polls closed, however, Ahmadinejad was declared the clear victor with an absolute majority of more than 60 percent, and Khamenei quickly endorsed the results.
They said it effectively endorsed the results of a military action they had not sanctioned, and urged international contributions of troops and money -- burden-sharing -- to occupation authorities who, they said, were not sharing any responsibility.
But the controversial body of clerics and jurists has changed its mind, nullifying her votes even though election officials endorsed the results in Isfahan and found no major discrepancy in the counting process.
The reformist victory in the polls became official after the Guardian Council, a supervisory body dominated by hard-liners, endorsed the results after a delay of more than three months.
Ayatollah Khamenei endorsed the results of the disputed presidential election of June 2009, which gave a landslide victory and a second term to his ally, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Traditionally, the District Sub-Governor simply moderated shura and endorsed the resulting contract without influencing the results.
Now that the supreme court has endorsed the result, they may finally come down.
Three foreign observer groups and the EAB witnessed the preliminary count at the polling stations and broadly endorsed the result (victory, again, for the PPP).
And according to one CEP member, only half the council has endorsed the result, although a majority may not be formally necessary for it to count.
International observers endorsed the result, but Yulia Tymoshenko, Mr Yanukovich's opponent and the country's prime minister, refused to concede.
