Iran: violence

A helicopter from the Islamic Republic of Iran Police (IRIP) crashed, killing all five people aboard.
The accident happened near the city of Varazhgan, East-Azerbaijan province.
The helicopter was on a mission to monitor highway traffic in the Varzeqan area.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.



Iran harshly condemned the Wilders-movie. In a statement of the Iranian Foreign Ministry it said that the video is "insulting and anti-islamic" with "deep antagonism" of some western states towards islam and muslims and warned of "consequences of such provocative move."
The film recycled clips from terrorist attacks in the US, Spain and the Netherlands, mixed with passages from the Quran and speeches by extremist islamic preachers.
The film began and ended with one of the for islam insulting cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
The Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said the film equates islam with violence, and "we reject this."



On Thursday evening, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards resumed bombarding the Iraqi Kurdish border villages of Rizgah, Shinawa, Spigle, Maraud and Arke in Pishder district, and Sulaimani province.The shelling is aimed at bases of the Kurdish rebel group PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) which is a breakaway faction of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party).
6 villages were de-populated in the shelling, 4 houses were demolished, and dozens of families were moved to areas far from the border.
No casualties were reported.


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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