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

The Iranian president, accompanied by eight members of his administration, attended the parliament's questioning session on Wednesday.

The questioning went ahead following a motion signed by 75 hardline lawmakers on Feb. 7, who said they wanted Ahmadinejad to appear before the Majlis and answer questions about his administration's policies, as well as the appointment and removal of key officials.

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had put forward a number of motions meant to summon the president to the Majlis, but those proposals were later withdrawn for political considerations.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 the March 2 parliamentary elections and the 2013 presidential elections.

Most of the hardliner lawmakers, who followed the Supreme Leader of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and once supported Ahmadinejad's re-election for presidency in the controversial presidential election in 2009, later turned back on him and accused him of violating the laws ratified by the parliament and assigned to him.

Ahmadinejad's administration was also accused of a number of inefficiencies regarding implementing subsidy reform plan and controlling unbounded inflation, mismanagement of government's budget in allocating fund to some vital projects in major cities and even challenging the supreme leader's authority.

In the first round of the ninth parliamentary elections in the Islamic republic on March 2, the president and his supporters were dealt with a heavy political blow by the hardliner conservatives who are loyal to the supreme leader and won most of the seats of the Majlis.