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(President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) kisses Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (L) looks at them, after Ahmadinejad received a certificate declaring him as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran from Khamenei in Tehran August 3, 2009.)

(AFP) "Among those who did not attend were Ahmadinejad's defeated rivals Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, along with powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, it said."