Iran: system

The kidnappers of Satoshi Nakamura, 23, want to release him, in return of the release of a relative on death row.
Nakamura was abducted in October 2007 in the border area with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The chief of police in Kerman said to the newspaper Tehran Emrouz that the kidnappers had also seized a local Friday prayers leader in the town of Fahraj.
He said that the system will not give in to their extortion and of course prices have to be paid in order to have authority over society.
They think Nakamura is now being held outside Iran in the border zone.
Early April the foreign ministry said Iran was making every effort to secure his release.


According to Iran's chief prosecutor the bombers of Shiraz confessed to have links to Israel and the United States.
ISNA also reported that they admitted carrying out "one or two minor operations", but gave no further details except that the group launched military operations a year ago.
Earlier Friday, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the same group had also plotted attacks in Qom, and at a book fair held in the capital.
Bomb attacks have been rare in Iran in recent years, but the blast in Shiraz was the first in decades in Iran's Persian heartland.
At the blast at a mosque in Shiraz were 13 people killed and more then 200 wounded.


Iran plans to raise domestic natural gas prices this summer.
A senior government official said this on the third Ravand Institute conference.
Natural gas sells for only two US cents per cubic metre in Iran, compared with 30 cents in neighbouring countries, the difference represents a subsidy of around 40 billion dollars a year.
The plan is to lift the price for industrial use with 15 cents, but the figure for individual customers was not given.
An official from Iran's gas sector said the country needed to economise in order to export, and that it is consuming too much.
The country has a 20-year plan to lift production to 1.45 billion cubic metres a day, with 642 million for domestic consumption, 259 million for injection in oil production wells and 550 million for export.
But these projects needs massive investments,which are hindered by a US economic boycott.


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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