Electoral officials on Monday said a random recount of votes from Iran's presidential elections found no evidence of ballot rigging and that a run-off vote would be held on Friday as planned, state television said.
"It has been clarified that there was no discrepancy in the election results," television said, citing a letter from the hard-line Guardian Council supervisory body head Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati to Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari.
Defeated reformist candidates in Friday's poll had called the vote into question after hard-line Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied opinion polls to finish second, earning a place in the run-off with pragmatic cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanajni.
As a result of the allegations of vote tampering, the Guardian Council earlier on Monday ordered a recount of votes from 100 ballot boxes from four large cities, including Tehran.
The random sample was a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of ballot boxes used at 41,000 polling centres across the country.
The Guardian Council, "confirms the results of the elections and a run-off will be held on June 24," television said.
It said fifth-placed reformist candidate Mostafa Moin had asked for a postponement of the run-off.