Iran: reconsider

According to the daily Iran are Wednesday 3 men and one woman hanged in Evinprison.
The men, Qasem Yaqoubi, 29-year-old Reza, and 28-year-old Erfan were accused of murder and rape.
The woman, Zahra had been found guilty of poising her husband to death.



Thursday are 18 members of the Jundallahgroup killed or arrested by Iranian police. General Ghaffari, provincial policecommander in Sistan-e-Baluchestan province. said arms, explosives, communication equipment and documents were seized, showing that the Jundallahgroup were planning attacks with foreign back-up.
The daily Iran says that members of the group were hiding in the city of Iranshahr and they planned to assassinate provincial officials.

Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban students of Amir Kabir university, who were sentenced to three years in prison for publishing anti-islamic images in four student newspapers.were acquitted of some charges by the Tehran public court and they were given new four-month terms, which means they will be released on Saturday.
Their detention led to fierce studentprotests in the previous months.


The ban on exporting shrimps to the European Union has been lifted.
The European ban on shrimps was made five years ago.
According to Managing Director of Iran Seafood Farm and Exports Cooperatives Arsalan Qasemi,this ban was lifted through efforts by the Ministry of Agricultural Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and without this the ban would have lasted longer.
Both Ministries have together with a special committee and a laboratorium made plans. With the lifting of the ban, other obstacles to the development of the industry should be removed in an effort to make optimum use of the potentials.
President Ahmadinejad has ordered in a letter the banks to reconsider lending rates and fines imposed on shrimp farmers’ who had defaulted in payments.
The letter has been notified to all banks by deputy commerce ministers for banking affairs and if banks support shrimp farmers, output could reach 15,000 tons.




The Dutch tenor, Marcel Beekman, will hold workshops in Tehran on December 25-26, as part of programs for the 23rd Fajr International Music Festival.
Beekman is a soloist in both the Baroque/Classical and the contemporary concert and opera repertoire and has performed with many orchestras, namely the Berlin Symphoniker, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Netherlands Bach Society.
The secretary of the festival told that one of the goals is to familiarize Iranian musicians with orchestration of classical instruments.


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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