Iran:distinction

The Iranian minister of roads and transportation announced plans to privatize the country's leading airline, Iran Air.
He said that they are ready to offer the Iran Air Company's shares to interested buyers.
He said that Iran Air, like the country's other airlines, is a profit-making company.
Iran Air, also known as Homa, is Iran's national airlinecompany. It operates flights to 20 scheduled and five charter destinations.
The cargo fleet flies to 35 international and 25 domestic destinations.
The Tehran-based company currently owns 54 aircrafts.



Minister Mohammad Hossein Safar Harandi said at a pressconference that writers have to to self-censor their books if they want to be published in the Islamic republic.
He said publications should be in line with the system's "religious, moral and national" sensitivities and warned writers against graphic descriptions of relationships or sex.
It is a clear violation of the law to give an excessive portrayal of a man and woman's private relationships and subject youth and adults to descriptions of intercourse.
Also if anyone makes fun of religion, be it islam or christianity it should not been allowed opposition to god to be reflected in the media.
He said this in reply to a recent letter from the Tehran Publishers Association complaining that the ministry employed a prolonged and arbitrary vetting process.
All publications in Iran must be approved by the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. Publishers have complained of tighter censorship of new books in the past few years.
In the past two years, several new titles and reprints have been banned including the latest novel by celebrated Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores."
Various works of Iran's most famous contemporary writer, Sadegh Hedayat, are also been banned.


According to the National Council of Restance in Iran students of the Sahand Technology University in Tabriz entered the 5th day of their hungerstrike.
They protest with this among other things against security guards for insulting female students.
Protesting students chanted "We are angry at those who promote discrimination".
Twenty-one male and four female students are on strike.
Here and here are two videos.
They also protest to suppressive measures at the school against the students and demanded the resignation of the vice-president of cultural affairs and the dean of student affairs.


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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