Iran: impressions

Saturday, the Iranian ambassador in Iraq, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, visited the five detained Iranian diplomats.
According to Presstv he said that the diplomats during the five-hour visit told that they objected to the way they had been abducted, and called on the Iraqi government to increase the efforts to secure their release.
He also asked to meet two other Iranians, abducted earlier by the USA. A decision about this would be made soon.
The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry told Sunday that the diplomats have complained about their treatment in detention.
The Iranian ambassador told IRNA that the diplomats would be allowed to meet with their relatives "in the coming days". He also said that there had been "an improvement in terms of their detention situation".


Journalist Mohammad Sadeq Javadihesar told Radio Farda in a telephone interview that Iranian reformist and centrist political forces are concerned about the country's upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for March 2008.
They worry that the conservatives and especially the government of President Ahmadinejad and the Guardians Council, will make the participation of reformist aspirants as difficult as possible in order to ensure another conservative-dominated legislature.
These concerns are reinforced by a more aggressive attitude toward government critics by Ahmadinejad's ministers and supporters in recent weeks.
Among other things by verbal attacks from officials on reformists and preceding administrations, accusing them of being inefficient, materialistic, and indifferent to revolutionary values.


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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