Iran: sovereignty

Newsagency Fars reported that in the city of Tabriz, East-Azerbaijan province, Saturday two men and a woman are hanged in public.The woman, identified as Hurieh, 29, was hanged along with Farhad, 23, and Reza, 24, for murdering her husband and three of her in-laws.

The daily Kayhan wrote that Saturday a man in public is hanged in the city of Shiraz, Fars province,
The man Navid Parham, 22 was accused of murder and robbery.


The hardline Kayhan newspaper had claimed in its editorial that Bahrain was separated from Iran through an illicit agreement between the former Shah of Iran and the governments of Britain and the United States and it further claimed that public demand in Bahrain backed reunification of "this province (Bahrain) with its motherland Iran."
The article led to protest demonstrations in the Bahraini capital Manama where anti-Iranian slogans were shouted and a formal apology of the Iranian government was demanded.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said that the article just reflected the personal opinion of the writer and not that of the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said yesterday during a visit to Manama, that Iran recognises Bahrain as an independent Arab state and has no ownership claims towards the country.

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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