Iran: point of view

Sunday the Tehran Press Court lifted the ban on the daily 'Sharq'.
Managing director Mehdi Rahmanian, is sentenced to a 9,000,000.00 IRRial=739.9852 EUR. fine.
February 3 the ban on the Persian daily Siasat-e Rouz was lifted.
The newspaper was banned for publishing material deemed insulting to Sunni Muslims.





The recently premiered movie '300' tells in Hollywoodway about ancient Greeks and Persians and the Battle of Thermopylae.The movie is based on the comic books from Frank Miller's graphic novel.On different sites like here and here or here, are articles about the way how the ancient Persians are portrayed in the movie.
They are portrayed like a kind of negroid barbarian bloodthirsty monsters.
An Iranian official has protested against this movie.
Greece also has objections.

In the meantime, the movie is boxtopper in USA.




The February disappeared Iranian ex deputy Minister of Defense Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari, seems to have changed sides after all.
This weekend he is said to be debriefed at a Nato base in Germany.There are rumors that he already spied for NATO in 2003.
After he heard on February 7 that his family safely fled to the West, he disappeared through Istanbul.


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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