Iran: crackdown

February 4 were Hashem Aghajari and Abdollah Momeni were banned at Tehran airport when they were about to take a trip to USA. Aghari was leaving to the US to give a speech at the MIT university (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Aghari is a known critic towards Iran’s Islamic system and spent till 2004 in jail, after being sentenced to death in 2002 by conservative clergy after accusing some Iranian officials of implementing a fundamentalist version of Islam.
The judiciary revised its decision after the death sentence sparked demonstrations throughout the country, plus international condemnation.
Momeni says the move is part of an attempt by the government to restrict activists.
In the past weeks several other activists and journalists have been prevented from leaving Iran to attend conferences and seminars.

Famous Iranian-Kurdish filmdirector Bahman Ghobady will no longer be able to shoot a film in Iran according to the decision of Cinema Office of Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry.
Although there was no reason told, Ghobadi thinks that it seems the ‘Kurdishness’ in films is to blame.
Ghobadi said that the banning is its first kind which occurs in Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
This is not the first time Ghobadi facing restriction from the Iranian censors.
When Bahman Ghobadi completed his second feature film, -“Marooned in Iraq’ originally titled as ‘The Songs of My Motherland’- and applied for screening permission for the film he has been told by Iranian authorities that the original title of the film, was too “nationalist”.



Microsoft Vista seems to be cracked by Iranians. And not just that but it generates also a 'valid key' which is accepted by Microsoft as 'genuine key, so Microsoft accepts update.
Copies of the cracked version are available in Iran for $8.
Microsoft has up till now not given any reaction.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

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