Ahmadinejad's Supporters Defeated in Election

A handout picture released by the Iranian presidency shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) meeting with Indian Union Minister for renewable energy, Farooq Abdullah (L), in Tehran, March 3, 2012. (AFP)

A man looks at newspapers at a news stand in Tehran, March 4, 2012. (Reuters)

Torn electoral posters are seen on a wall in central Tehran, March 3, 2012.

An Iranian woman walks past a torn electoral poster for a parliamentary candidate a day after the elections in Tehran, March 3, 2012. (AFP)

Head-to-toe veiled Iranian women look at mannequins in a women's dress show in Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2012. (AP)

Iranian conservative critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have defeated his supporters in most of the parliamentary seats whose winners have been declared in the country's parliamentary election.