Mousavi to submit proposal in vote row: Iran media

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi met members of a committee set up to examine Iran's disputed June 12 election and he is expected to present a new proposal on the issue, a news agency said on Monday.

The semi-official Fars News Agency quoted a spokesman of Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, as saying Mousavi met committee members late on Sunday and was supposed to submit his proposal on Monday. The committee was set up by the Council to examine complaints about the election.

The Fars report did not give any details of the proposal from Mousavi, who says the election was rigged and wants it to be annulled. The Council has offered a partial recount of the election, but has repeatedly ruled out cancelling it.

"We are still waiting to receive this offer and examine it in this special committee," Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodai said, Fars reported.

Another Iranian news agency, Mehr, said Mousavi's proposal had already been submitted to the committee and suggested it was related to the method of vote recounting.

"Our provincial offices are ready to recount (votes) based on a method proposed by Mousavi," Mehr quoted Kadkhodai as saying.

Mousavi has earlier rejected any partial recount of the election, calling for its annulment. He also says a "national arbitration committee" should examine the election issue and the street protests.

Iran's al-Alam state television earlier on Monday said a partial recount of the vote had started.

Official results released a day after the June 12 election showed that hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a landslide, sparking days of street protests by supporters of Mousavi.

The 12-member Guardian Council is to give its final verdict on the election and this could happen later Monday. It has repeatedly ruled out annulling the vote, saying it has found no major irregularities.

(Editing by Matthew Jones)