Iran: crescent

In Ahwaz are three men hanged on charges of preaching Wahabbism (a branch of Sunni Islam ) and bombing the Zergan oilfields in 2005.
The men, Abdulreza Nawaseri, Mohammad Ali Sawari and Jaffar Sawari did not have a fair trial and their lawyers were not given time to read their clients' files or meet their clients.
Abdulreza Nawaseri, 32 years, was arrested in 2000 and then sentenced to 35 prison. He was in prison at the time of the bomb attacks in Zergan.
The brothers Mohammad Ali Sawari and Jaffar Sawari had been in prison since 2005. They were initially accused of attempting to convert Ahwazi Arabs to Sunnism, but they were later blamed for the Zergan oilfield attacks.
After the executions some Ahwaz-Arabs held a demonstration where police used brute force, reports suggest that one person has been killed and 20 have been wounded.


The Supreme Leader announced Thursday that the month of ramadan in Iran started.
He was quoted certifying reports of the sighting of the moon in different parts of the country.
The ramadan lasts 30 days and muslims abstain from eating, drinking and smoking from sunrise to sunset.



Iran resumed the gasflow to Turkey.
This was stopped following a large explosion on Sunday night on a pipeline in Turkey.
The Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Ministry announced that Iran has started to pump 20 million cubic metres ofnatural gas early on Thursday after the pipeline was repaired.

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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