Iran: position

Conservatives as well as reformists are criticising the mass disqualification by the authorities of over 2,000 candidates for parliamentary elections.
Leading conservative MP Ahmad Tavakoli has written a letter to the hardline Guardians Council, in which he says that the quantity and quality of the rejection of candidates has reached such an extent this time that it is worrying the friends of the Islamic revolution.
The Revolutionary Guards commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari, asked openly for the support of the conservatives in parliament.
In a speech for the Basij he told the officials that conservatives now controlled the executive and legislative, and "if the Basij members want to preserve this current and develop it, they must eliminate weak points."
Also Hassan Khomeini, the most prominent of Khomeini's grandchildren, criticised the disqualifications. He also has spoken out against military interference in politics.
He said his late grandfather had wanted the military to stay out of politics.


According to newsagency ISNA the young man, who was sentenced to death for drinking alcohol is freed.
Judge Jalil Jalili said that the man did not confess to drinking alcohol in front of the judge and he was acquitted and released.
The same judge was quoted on Wednesday in Etemad newspaper as saying the young man, named only as Mohsen, had been sentenced to death.


A website for internet usage statistics shows that Iran has more than 50 percent of internet users in the Middle East.
According to 'Internet World Stats', Iran has 18 million internet users.
That is a 7,100 percent growth in internet access by Iranians from the period spanning 2000 to 2007.



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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