Iran: threat

The Iranian ambassador in Norway warned that country that a meeting next week between Norwegian lawmakers and an Iranian opposition leader would carry "serious consequences" for bilateral relations.
Members of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee planned to hold talks with Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi next week.
Radiostation NRK said that Iranian ambassador, Abdul Reza Faraji Rad, became aware of the meeting, which was not public, after ostensibly intercepting an internal E-mail addressed to the committee.
Foreign Affairs Committee member Morten Hoglund criticized the Iranian ambassador for making the threat.
Gerrit Loeberg, the head of security in Norway's Parliament, told the local newspaper VG that he would discuss the security concern with the Scandinavian country's secret police, PST.


The Iranian judiciary has declared an ethnic Arab party illegal on charges of instigating unrest and opposing the Islamic system in the southern city of Ahwaz, Khuzestan province.
For more than a year there is unrest among the province's mostly Arab population.

The Lejnat al-Wefaq party (Committee of reconciliation), is illegal and membership and connection with that party will be severely confronted.
Newsagency Mehr said three of the people who had connections with the party have been arrested in Ahwaz last week.
Slightly more than half of Iran's population are Persians and the rest are ethnic Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Baluchis and Lors.
About three percent are Arabs and authorities are sensitive about protests and discontent in Khuzestan province where most of the oil industry is based.




In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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