Iran: connections

Abbas Palizdar, the man who accused several high clerics of corruption, is Wednesday arrested on charges of "spreading lies".
Fars newsagency reported this; in May Palizdar held speeches in Hamedan and Shiraz in which he also accused authorities of assassinating two prominent officials.
One of those speeches can be seen through YouTube .
Palizdar is supporter of president Ahmadinejad and some of the accused are opponents of the president.
The bank Melli also pressed charges against Palizdar for not paying back a business loan worth approximately $6.6 million that he received 16 years ago.
The government denied any connection to Palizdar, also Iranian newspapers and newsagencies denounced the speeches. The website Tabnak published transcripts in which Palizdar accuses prominent clerics of corruption, including ex-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the current political opponent of Ahmadinejad.



The daily Etemad reports that Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Company told her workers they have to marry before September 21, or they lose their jobs.
Most refineries are situated near Assalouyeh, Bushehr province, where in summer temperatures can get up to 50 degrees and hardly a place for families.
Employees often are young men seeking to earn a good income and it seems that the decree is meant to keep them away from sexual temptations during their stay away from home.
Prostitution and sexual relations outside of marriage are forbidden in Iran.
Also Iran is having a moral crackdown which has seen tens of thousands of women warned by the police for dress deemed to be unIslamic.
Approximately 12 million Iranian between 15 and 29 are unmarried, but last year there were only 840.000 marriages.
The governor of North Khorrasan said in a similar warning that only married civil servants will be allowed to take up official posts in the region.


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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