Iran: re-direct

According to newsagency Fars, Hassan Nobakhtian, the editor of the website Nosazi is jailed in Evinprison.
He criticized on his (conservative) website a grandson of ayatollah Khomeini.
In a piece he made allegations about his appearance, the expensive BMW, having a personal sauna and living in affluent north Tehran.



Daily Etemad reported that Iran is to impose a gender quota on universities partly in a bid to prevent women dominating the medical profession.
There will be a minimum 30 percent admission for men and women each and the rest will be chosen competitively.
This said the head of Iran's Academic Testing Organisation.
He said that the law will guarantee the entrance of both genders and that the measure was not discriminating against women, pointing out that they would benefit in disciplines where they are still outnumbered by men.
In natural sciences, where girls score higher marks, the gender quotas will benefit men, it will benefit women in mathematics and engineering where they rank lower than men


Iran has reversed the ban on waterpipes in teahouses.
The interior ministry said in a directive to the police published in the Tehran Emrouz newspaper, that tea houses with a business permit can offer water pipes to their costumers.
However only plain tobacco would be allowed in water pipes and popular fruit flavours like strawberry and apple would remain banned due to "health risks".
The smoking of water pipes in tea houses was prohibited with the ban on smoking in public places.


The Russian giant Gazprom has agreed to develop "two or three" blocks of the monstrous South Pars gas field in Iran.
The daughter company, Gazpromneft, will also be part of a huge oil project in Iran.
Gazprom has been in South Pars since 1997,
The Washington political pressure on European multinationals such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell as well as on European banks has helped to lead to Gazprom's victory in 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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