Iran:pressure

Thursday two men were publicly hanged in front of the main offices of the judiciary in central Tehran.
Majid Kavoosifar, 28, and his cousin Hossein Kavoosifar, 24, were convicted of killing a prominent judge, a police officer and a bystander in a string of robberies and attacks.
Two men were hanged Wednesday in a prison in Zahedan, convicted of armed smuggling of narcotics.




State television aired footage of the hanging of the seven men yesterday.. The men, all handcuffed, were hanged under a banner which read, "Implementation of justice equals improvement of security”.


According to PressTV a group of top editors from the National Geographic who were on their way to Tehran have been forced to return home by the US officials.
The group was coming to Iran in order to visit the ancient sites of the country, meet Iranian professors and cultural officials, and plan to send a group of professional photographers and writers to Iran at a later date.
A member of Manhattan's Anthropology Museum in America has expressed sorrow that National Geographic officials could finally get Iran's permission for a trip to the country and the trip stopped.



Davoud Danesh-Ja'fari the Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance , says negotiation with Deutche Bank is underway to persuade them not to limit interaction with Iranian customers.
He thinks the Germans are not happy with the course of events and that they have been pressured by the US into doing so.
He also said that this bank is not the only institute for financial activities.



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





As a strange effect I note that I included a photo of the gallow+banner, but the photo doesn't show.