TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line president is accusing his pro-reform opponent of lying about Iran's economic troubles to sway voters.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the allegations during his final rally ahead of Friday's vote. Thousands of supporters waved Iranian flags and chanted slogans against Ahmadinejad's main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi.

The race is neck-and-neck and has displayed Iran's deep political divides. Mousavi has hammered Ahmadinejad for letting Iran's economy stumble despite the nation's vast oil and gas reserves.

At Wednesday's rally in western Tehran, Ahmadinejad says he's confident he'll be re-elected despite the huge rallies in support of his opponent.

No campaigning is allowed Thursday on the eve of the vote.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP)—Persian hip-hop thumps from car speakers and young hipsters—men with spiked hair and women in spike heels—dance in the streets.

It's another night and another campaign rally-turned-party for their unlikely hero: a self-styled reformist from the early years of the Islamic Revolution who is now seen as their best hope to defeat hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But while Mir Hossein Mousavi generates the noise, passion and electricity in Tehran, Ahmadinejad has the backing of the powerful Islamic establishment and deep support in the countryside, leaving Friday's vote too close to call.

Mousavi would appear to have the momentum, drawing staggering crowds and all-night street bashes. But all that noise, fervor and electricity doesn't necessarily add up to a juggernaut, with critical stakes at play, including possible talks with Washington after a nearly three-decade diplomatic estrangement.

The post-midnight raves in Tehran's leafy suburbs are uncorking passions that seem to have caught even Mousavi by surprise. He stood in awe Monday at one end of a nearly 12-mile human chain of supporters along one of Tehran's main thoroughfares, linked by green ribbons and banners in the symbolic color of his campaign.

What's left in the final days before the vote is a flat-out political end game that's fundamentally rewritten the rules of Iranian campaigns. This time, the attacks have been nastier, the crowds wilder and the media war more acute than any previous presidential race.

It's partly because of the moment. Iran faces some pivotal decisions, including whether to agree to international demands to suspend its uranium enrichment program, and how to respond to President Barack Obama's call for dialogue.

There's pitched excitement in the reformist camp, which lost the presidency at the end of President Mohammad Khatami's second term in 2005. Its supporters are convinced now that Ahmadinejad is ripe to fall.

Iran's economy is sinking under the twin burdens of widespread mismanagement and double-digit inflation despite vast oil and gas reserves. There's a growing sense that Iranians are tired of the international snubs and denunciations from Ahmadinejad's provocative statements, including questioning the extent of the Holocaust and calling for Israel's destruction.

Charismatic, just about the right age, from Persia...

Hmmmm...