Iran: sensitive

In the city of Miandoab, West-Azerbaijan province is Thursday a man hanged in prison.
The hard-line daily Qods wrote that the man, Davoud, was convicted for rape and murder.




Today has the 2-day Holocaust-conference been opened.At this, by a lot of countries in the world condemned meeting, will be talked about questions as to in how much extend did the nazis use gaschambers in WorldWarII and other Holocaust related questions.
Iranmania.com wrote that BBC's correspondent in Tehran, said that Iran knows this conference is going to cause outrage abroad but wants to test the limits of the West's commitment to freedom of speech.

The gathering is condemned worldwide by Holocaustsurvivors, jewish organizations, human rights organizations and western governments.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in September that the Holocaust is a historical fact.

By the picture:
Rabbi Moishe Ayre Friedman, left, from Austria, give his business card to a Muslim clergyman, as Rabbi Ahron Cohen from England, looks on, at a conference on the Holocaust, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. (AP / Vahid Salemi)

The Majlis (parliament) is agreable to replacing the US dollar with the euro in Iranian foreign transactions, said Morteza Tamaddon, member of the Majlis Planning and Budget Commission. Reducing Iran's dependence on the US dollar would eventually make the country less vulnerable to the dollar. He says "Even European countries have concluded that they should replace the US dollar with a stronger currency".
Iran's minister of finance announced last week that the government had decided to replace the US dollar with the euro in its international transactions.He said that the move was in response to the Bush administration's hostile policies towards Iran.




According to newsagency Fars have four weapensmugglers been arrested in Khuzestan province. Two of them were hospitalized due to injuries.Law enforcement and security forces confiscated 60 rifles and pistols, one Kalashnikov machinegun and a pile of bullets.
The gang intended to smuggle the cargo to Ahwaz-city and Shadegan.




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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