Iran: implementation

Arash Bahamani, the editor of the daily Gylan Emroz, and two of his reporters, Babak Mehdizadeh and Sied Kohzad Esmaili, were convicted by a court in Rashat, in the northern province of Gilan, on 12 November. They are respectively sentenced to 16 and 4 months in prison.
They are convicted on various charges including insulting an imam.They have decided to appeal.
The three journalists spent several days custody in February after criticising President Ahmadinejad’s policy during a visit he made to the province.
Gylan Emroz was one of the first Iranian newspapers to reveal the existence of bird flu cases in the country.
Abolfazl Abedini Nasr of the weekly Bahar Khozestan is arrested 1r November in Ahwaz city. It is not known where he is being held.
Adnan Hasanpour began a hunger strike in protest against his death sentence.


The newspaper Etemad Melli says that the Iranian central bank has warned that rising money supply growth will further push up inflation.Last fiscal year, the inflation rate was 8.9 percent and it has increased to 15.8 percent.
In early November, the new governor of Iran's central bank warned over money supply growth urging measures to prevent a further rise in inflation.
The government's economic policies have been criticised for stoking inflation by ploughing windfall revenues from high oil prices into local infrastructure projects promised on provincial visits.
The government says that it is merely fulfilling Ahmadinejad's election promises of making ordinary people feel the benefits of oil wealth and that it has inflation under control.


The Iranian government is implementing a new plan to privatize state institutions as a prevention against monopolization.
The state seeks private partners to invest in and expand the mining sector.
Iran is the biggest zinc and lead bullion producer in the Middle East.
The annual zinc bullion production in Iran amounts to 150,000 tons, which is projected to escalate to five million tons in 18 years.


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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