Iran: confidence

Monday visited a representative of the Dutch government imprisoned Dutch-Iranian Abdullah al Mansouri for the first time.
He is in prison in Ahwaz City.
The visit lasted 45 minutes in presence of Iranian authorities.
Al Mansouri said that he is doing well under the circumstances.
Since his arrest in Syria in May 2006, this was the first time, a representative of Dutch government was allowed to visit Al Mansouri.






According to The Times, an Iranian member of parliament, Mohsen Yahyavi. told British MPs at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a peace body, that homosexuals should be executed or tortured and possibly both.
The minutes, made at a gathering in May, describe the event.
Yahyavi explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted and he said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed.
He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce.


Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, the head of Iran's Democratic Front and the publisher of a now-banned weekly newspaper, "Payam-e Daneshjou-ye Basiji" is re-arrested by Iranian authorities.
He was released on parole after serving years of prison.
November 11 he had to report to a local court and was arrested there and taken to Tehran's Evin prison.
Tabarzadi claims that he has served his full sentence, but the authorities disagree, he told Radio Farda after he was released from jail last year.
Initially he was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, his sentence was later reduced by a higher court to 7 years.
According to a document he received from the prison last year called 'Proclamation On The Prisoner's Situation' all of the time he served during various detentions would mean that the current term would have ended on August 30, 2007.
But the Intelligence Ministry says that he still have six more years to serve.



Gholam-Hossein Nozari, nominee for the Oil Ministry and Ali-Akbar Mehrabian, nominee for the Ministry of Industries, have received votes of confidence to lead their ministries respectively.
Gholam-Hossein Nozari won by 217 votes to 20, nine lawmakers out of the 246 members present abstained.
Ali-Akbar Mehrabian won by 174 to 49 against, 18 votes abstained.
The vote of confidence session was held with the participation of President Ahmadinejad, First Vice-President Parviz Davoudi and nine cabinet ministers.



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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