Iran: imprinted

Iran's largest gasoline supplier, Swiss-based oil company Vitol, is planning to end its contract with the country in the coming year.
Reuters reports that Vitol has made the decision because it had made a loss of an estimated $70 million for the calendar year 2007 . The source did not mention any political considerations.
About 60 percent of the gasoline needs of Iran are met by Vitol.



According to Civil Aviation spokesman Reza Ja'farzadeh Iran will add 130 passenger planes to its fleet . He told IRIB that despite US pressure on its aviation industry, Iran is determined to purchase the aircraft and authorities are preparing the way for the purchases which will take place over a ten-year period. The planes are Tupolev models which are manufactured by Russia's Gorbunov Company.



The journalist Yaghub Salaki Nia is released against paying a bail of 80.000Euro.
He was arrested October 31.
Adl Mazri, editor of the newspaper Sobh e Zahedan, was released on 12 December, four days after being summoned and arrested. He is now awaiting trial. The charges are publishing false information and disturbing public opinion.
The wherabouts of Omid Ahamadzadeh, who contributed for Aso and Didgah,two newspapers that have been suspended since 2005. is still unknown. He was arrested November 28.
Abolfazl Abedini Nasr of the daily Bahar Khozestan has been charged with “complicity with a terrorist entity.” .He was arrested November 13 in Ahwaz city and is suspected of links with someone responsible for a bombing.
Said Matinpour of the weekly Yarpagh has meanwhile been allowed to receive a visit from his family for the first time since his arrest on 28 May.



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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