Iran: withdraw

Dresdner Bank AG, a unit from Allianz SE shut down the accounts of more than 100 customers with ties to Iran.
According to Stern magazine this is done to safeguard the company's business ties in the US.
A spokesman for Dresdner Bank told Stern that the bank is closing accounts of private customers who have a residence in Iran as well as those from which there are 'regular' money transfers to Iran.


The German ambassador in Tehran said that the pressure on Germany from the United States is the main reason that German banks have reduced their cooperation with banks and companies in Iran. He added that the German government wants to expand bilateral ties.
The director of the Central Bank Iran said that the Central Bank of Iran is ready to cooperate with Spanish banks.
The director of the Spanish Central Bank said that Spanish banks can boost their cooperation with their Iranian counterparts and that Spanish banks are major investors in Latin America.



The English Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC), ruled Friday that the decision to keep the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) on the blacklist under the 2000 Terrorist Act was "perverse".
The PMOI was the armed wing of the France-based National Council of Resistance of Iran but renounced violence in June 2001.
The British Home Office interior ministry said it would appeal against the judgement.
The appeal to the POAC was brought by 35 parliamentarians.
Hossein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee of the wider National Council of Resistance of Iran umbrella group, told that the judgement would have a "very big impact inside in Iran."
Home Office minister Tony McNulty said that he is disappointed at this judgment and that they don't accept it.


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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