Iran: roses and thorns

Dutch Omroep Llink has a tv-program called "LLink op reis"(Llink travel) .
On their website you find a (Dutch) blog, Salam Iran! in which 15 young people blog about their trip to Iran.



Isfahan province is preparing to play host to the traditional Rose and Rose Water Festival.
This will be held May 15 to 31. In the cities Kashan, Qamsar and Niasar, the ceremony of extracting rose water is visited every year by many Iranians and foreign tourists.
Rosewater is a product used in many traditional Iranian dishes and a lot of other things, like parfume and cosmetics.
Also in Tehrans Eram Park will the Rose Water festival be held from 16-25 of May, together with Cultural Heritage Week.


The wife of missing American Robert Levinson wrote a letter to President Ahmadinejad, asking him to help finding her husband. She told this in a CNN-interview.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday that USA has made approximately five inquiries about Levinson's whereabouts
He also said that in addition to Levinson there are three Iranian-Americans who have had their passports confiscated by Iranian officials and not allowed to leave Iran.
These are Haleh Esfandiari, who runs the Middle East programs for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington and Parnaz Azima, who works for US-funded Radio Farda.
The third person has not been identified.



In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl