Iran: sanction

Wednesday are in Saveh, south from Tehran, two Afghans hanged in public.
They were convicted for the rape of a Dutch woman.




Ayatollah Kamenei said Wednesday at a gathering of students of the police-academy in Tehran that security plays a key role in the success and prosperity of Iran.
Also he said that the police has to take a firm stance against those who undermine the country's security.
According to statetelevision he said that the police must strongly press on with the 'social security plan' and avoid seasonal and temporary initiatives.
In the past months during the "crackdown for moral security" thousands of women have been warned for not being dressed properly to the islamic dresscode. Also hundreds of "thugs" were arrested and satellite-dishes were seized.
Some moderates have questioned the need for the moral crackdown but conservatives have applauded police and say its is popular with the public and necessary to improve security in society.


Yahoo! and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services.
Google has kept Iran as an option on the Gmail registration page. however.
Yahoo says that as consequence of the new US-sanctions, they cannot accept registrations from countries subject to these restrictions.
Microsoft said it was unable to comment on the issue.
Google insists the sanctions do not preclude it from including Iran in its Gmail country list, and that they are in full compliance with US sanctions.
On 30 October, the correspondent of NRC Handelsblad wrote (in Dutch) that his paid Skype account had been cancelled. Also Voip said its financial services provider had been forced to stop taking payments from Iran.


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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