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Organizers of a UN food summit in Rome have readmitted the journalist of Radio Farda who was denied admittance to the Food Summit.
Also they apologized for the "unfortunate incident".
The reasons why security guards prevented Ahmad Rafat from entering the World Food Security Summit on June 3, remain unclear.
Rferl.org speculates that the incident is linked to the speech Iran's president Ahmadinejad made that same day, where he accused powerful countries of orchestrating global food shortages for economic and political gain.
Rafat is a Rome-based correspondent for Radio Farda, a joint venture between RFE/RL and Voice of America that broadcasts to Iran.


EU has June 4 expresses its concern on news of the imminent execution of Behnood Shojaee, Mohammad Fadaei en Saeed Jazee (Jazi).
All three are convicted for crimes they alledgedly made when they were minors.
Behnood Shojaee and Mohammad Fadaei are scheduled to be hanged on June 11 while the execution date for Saeed Jazee is set to be on June 25.
The EU notes that these executions are in contradiction with the agreements, which are also undersigned by Iran, prohibiting the execution of minors or people who have been convicted of crimes committed when they were minors.
The EU calls on Iran to comply with international law and to immediately halt the executions.


Three people were killed and eight injured when an oil pipeline caught fire Wednesday in the Khuzestan province.
The report did not make clear whether oil deliveries were affected but it said the fire broke out late on Tuesday and was extinguished early on Wednesday.
The incident happened near the village of Bagh-Malek after oil leaked from the pipeline.



A Turkish general said that Turkey and Iran are working together on PKK strikes.
They share information and when necessary they'll act together.
General Ilker Basbug, head of the land forces and the second most powerful man in the Turkish military, told this to reporters at a security conference.
Since February Turkey performs military actions against the PKK in the borderarea with Iraq where the PKK is based.
Iran regularly has clashes with PEJAK in Iraqi border areas.


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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