Iran: time

A Dutch company is charged by the USA for violation of the trade-embargo of Iran.
The company has been accused of exporting parachutes, aircraft parts and equipment to Iran. The charges also include making false statements on export control documents.
An arrest warrant has been issued forthe managing director of the company.
The charges are for Aviation Services International B.V and the other defendants are Delta Logistics L.V. en TPC, B.V.
The company claims to be not guilty to the charges.



In the past Iranian calendaryear Iran privatized 12 petrochemical companies.
They accounted for 35 percent of the sector’s subsidiaries.
The National Petrochemical Company (NPC) reported that the petrochemical companies of Khorassan, Shiraz, Tabriz, Bisotun in Kermanshah, Fanavaran, Shahid Tondguyan, Amir-Kabir, Razi in Mahshahr, and Ghadir in Assaluyeh will be offered in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) by the end of current year.
The NPC plans to privatize over 60 companies.



The Guardian Council has approved a law to reinstate daylightsaving time , a measure scrapped by President Ahmadinejad in 2006.
Parliament passed a bill in August demanding the practice be reintroduced.
The Guardian Council has found the bill on the official time change was not against (Islamic) sharia (law) or the constitution, so approved it.
Daylight saving time, when clocks move forward by one hour, previously began in Iran on March 21 and clocks were put back an hour again on Sept. 22.


The court in Shiraz sentenced two teenagers to death on the charges of rape and murder. Reza, 16, and Mohammed, 18, confessed to have raped 9-year-old Karim and 10-year-old Mohammed, tying them up and then tossing them into the river in Marvdasht town to drown them.
There were two other suspects in the crime, one of whom was acquitted and the other sentenced to flogging.

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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