Iranian president attends questioning session

TEHRAN - Iran's Majlis (parliament) began questioning President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday over a number of irregularities in the political and economic spheres.

The questioning went ahead following a motion signed by some hardline lawmakers in February.

In the past years, some Iranian lawmakers had put forward a number of motions meant to summon the president to the Majlis, but those proposals were later withdrawn for political considerations.

Observers believe that the new motion raised by the conservative lawmakers is linked to political rivalries between the president and the conservative hardliners in last Friday's parliamentary elections and the 2013 presidential elections.