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Wide of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters marching down Azadi street 2. Wide of rally with Azadi monument in background3. Mid of supporters waving Iranian flags ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++4. Wide of supporters in street5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters marching down Azadi street \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of rally with Azadi monument in background\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of supporters waving Iranian flags ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of supporters in street\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of crowd gathered in front of stage, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on podium waving\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, incumbent Iranian president and conservative candidate: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We do not insult and slander, we have logic. God willing our logic will beat all the insults, slanders and immoralities.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e7. Crowd cheering \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Vox pop, no name given, Ahmadinejad supporter: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I advocate him for his audacity, bravery and eloquence and I am sure that he is steady and strong enough to express himself easily.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of people in crowd cheering\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of Hossein Mousavi supporters marching on Azadi (Freedom) street, holding long green banner aloft over their heads \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of supporters marching holding a long green cloth above their head \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of supporters \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) No name given, Mousavi supporter: \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is the big rally of Mir Hossein Mousavi's supporters from Enghelab to Azadi square for peace, freedom, opposition to lying, stopping inflation, stopping lies that are told to people and because it has been four years that our country is going downward. We would like to take hold of the country by ourselves.\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of crowd approaching Azadi (Freedom) monument in Azadi square \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of supporters hitting on drums and shouting  \"Mir Hossein\" \u003cbr/\u003e17. Low angle of Azadi monument \u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up of Mousavi poster held up in the air\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of supporters in Azadi square \u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of Mousavi supporters clapping and shouting (Farsi) \"Ahmadi, bye, bye\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of crowd shouting (Farsi) \"Shame on you liar! Let go of the country\" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Reverse shot of a supporter facing crowd shouting (Farsi) \"student sacrifices his life but does not accept abjection.\" \u003cbr/\u003e23. Tilt-up of supporter covering his face with green cloth to his hand showing victory sign \u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of crowd with a green flag in foreground\u003cbr/\u003e25. Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodaei approaching podium \u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up of journalist's hand writing on notepad\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of journalists at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Abbasali Kadkhodaei, Guardian Council spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There is no possibility for cheating, we as the Guardian Council give assurances to all supporters and candidates that they should be confident that every single vote will be protected.\" \u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of Kadkhodaei at podium \u003cbr/\u003eIran's hard-line president took a final shot at his rivals on Wednesday during his last public pre-election rally, accusing them of resorting to a smear campaign against him similar to the one used by Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister.\u003cbr/\u003eIn western Tehran, supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flocked to Azadi St. - or Freedom St. - to catch a glimpse of him and hear one of his final speeches before heading to the polls on Friday. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We do not insult and slander, we have logic. God willing our logic will beat all the insults, slanders and immoralities,\" he told them.\u003cbr/\u003eAhmadinejad is locked in a neck-and-neck race against reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi. \u003cbr/\u003eBoth have launched intense political attacks against each other and have turned the presidential election into a display of Iran's deep political divides.\u003cbr/\u003eHeightening the tension before the race, a top official of Iran's hard-line elite Revolutionary Guards accused Ahmadinejad's reformist opponents of seeking to launch a \"velvet revolution\" - alluding to the 1989 ouster of the Communist government of then-Czechoslovakia - and vowing to crush any such attempts.\u003cbr/\u003eYadollah Javani said, in remarks published Wednesday on a Guards' Web site, that reformists plan to claim vote rigging should their candidate lose in Friday's vote and provoke street violence. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said the group is ready to deal with any possible post-election violence and crush opponents.\u003cbr/\u003eAhmadinejad and his main pro-reform opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, have accused each other using Hitler-like propaganda tactics in order to win on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the president's harsh allegations against his rivals, including Mousavi, during Wednesday's rally indicated that the mudslinging between the candidates was not slowing down.\u003cbr/\u003eThe outcome will have little direct impact on Iran's key policies - such as its nuclear programme or possible acceptance of Washington's offer for dialogue - which are directly dictated by the ruling Islamic clerics. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Ahmadinejad has become a highly polarising figure on the international stage with comments that include questioning the Holocaust and calling for Israel's demise.\u003cbr/\u003eA change of government could ease Iran's isolation and give Washington and others a freer hand to build ties with Tehran and engage in negotiations over Iran's nuclear ambitions. \u003cbr/\u003eThe United States and others fear Iran could eventually seek nuclear weapons, but Iranian officials say the country only seeks peaceful reactors for electricity. \u003cbr/\u003eMousavi has made Iran's struggling economy a hallmark of his campaign, accusing Ahmadinejad of manipulating statistics that hide the extent of the nation's fiscal problems despite its vast oil and gas reserves.\u003cbr/\u003eEarlier this week, Ahmadinejad insisted that inflation stood at 15 percent - lower than the 25 percent widely reported by financial officials. On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad admitted that inflation was 25 percent.\u003cbr/\u003eBut he also accused Mousavi of lying about the state of the economy.\u003cbr/\u003eTwo other candidates are in the race: former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei and former parliament speaker Mahdi Karroubi. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the increasingly tight race, their level of support could play a swing role - with Rezaei expected to draw conservative voters and Karroubi pulling in moderates.\u003cbr/\u003eThousands of Mousavi supporters, many of them young people, packed into nearby Freedom Square later on Wednesday for a rally. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Ahmadi, bye, bye\" they chanted, referring to Ahmadinejad.\u003cbr/\u003eSecurity was tight at the demonstration with riot police surrounding the square and a police helicopter flying overhead.\u003cbr/\u003eMousavi did not attend that rally, but made a final campaign foray into Ahmadinejad's provincial strongholds.\u003cbr/\u003eLater on Wednesday a spokesman for 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