Iran: exchange

Farsnews reports that Iran made a drastic cut in gasoline imports through rationing and saved over $1.2 bln already in this Iranian year.
Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, international affairs director of the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC),said that With this lower amount of imports, Iran expects to save about $3 billion over the whole year.


Saturday robbed three armed men a branch of Iran's Melli Bank in Tehran and took 72 mln Tomans away.They also wounded a security guard.
They fled away in a silver Samand and changed their license plate a few streets away from the bank. Police started investigations.
There are no reports of the condition of the wounded security guard.
He was transported to a nearby hospital.



All foreign airlines in Iran will from next week operate from the new but under-used airport outside the capital Tehran.
Gholam Hossein Baqerian, the managing director of Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA),30 km from Tehran, said that from November 4 foreign airlines would use this airport.
Until now most foreign airlines have continued to use the city-centre Mehrabad airport, in the future this will be used almost exclusively for domestic flights.


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