Iran: project

Thursday two men were hanged in Bandar Abbas, Hormuzgan province.
Newsagency Fars reported that they were named Ali D. and Karim T..
They were accused of drugstrafficking.




Amnesty International has September 5 published a statement in which she says she appalled at the spiralling numbers of executions in Iran and urges the Iranian government to stop the execution of childoffenders and to limit the scope of crimes punishable by death, as a first step towards its total abolition.
The organisation is calling for an immediate moratorium on executions in Iran.


Japan Nippon Oil is to start from October paying for Iranian oil in yen, rather than in US dollars.
Iran has been increasingly selling oil in currencies other than the US dollar, which has fallen in value.
Last year, Iran inserted a clause into oil contracts enabling it to require payment in currency other than the US dollar.



18 dam projects across the country are scheduled to be completed by the end of the current Iranian year (ending March 20). Minister of Power Rasool Zargar said that an overall number of 520 dams have been constructed in Iran by local experts except 11 made by foreigners before the Islamic Revolution.
He said so at the opening ceremony of the diversion tunnel of Shahre-Bijar Dam in Gilan Province.
Some 750 national projects in dam and waste water management are underway across the country, and the government has ratified 250 other projects in these fields.


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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