Iran's Guardian Council said on Tuesday that it is ready to recount the disputed polling boxes, local English-language Press TV said.

The council, Iran's top legislative body, has agreed on a recount of disputed ballot boxes in last week's presidential election if it finds irregularities in the vote count, Press TV said.

"If it is necessary, exact recount will be done," the local IRNA quoted the Guidance Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei as saying on Tuesday in another report.

Recount may lead to changes in the candidates' tally, the council said.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ordered the Guardian Council to investigate the claims of fraud in the recent presidential election which gave a landslide victory to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"The Guardian Council has been emphasized to carry out investigation into this carefully," Ayatollah Khamenei was quoted as saying by IRNA.

On Saturday afternoon, Iran's Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli announced that the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won 62. 63 percent of the total votes during Friday's vote, while former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi got 33.75 percent in Iran's presidential competition.

After the official declaration, Mousavi, in a statement, protested "strongly" the "obvious" violations in Iran's presidential election.

(Xinhua News Agency June 16, 2009)