Iran’s hardliners have clearly won the run-off election for the remaining 45 of 290 parliamentary seats – as expected. The “principlist” faction secured 10 of the 16 remaining seats for the capital Tehran, the Interior Ministry and media reports said. The remaining six seats went to the Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces (SHANA), which is also categorized as hard line. The two hardliner factions thus have 29 of the 30 seats in the politically most important constituency of Tehran. Only the former Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki – not a hardliner, but an arch-conservativ…