Iran: costly

The newspaper Jomhouri reports that in the prison of the city of Bojnourd, North Khorasan province a man is hanged.
He was convicted to death for buying and trafficking four kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine.



Global Voices Online report that update several Iranian bloggers write that
Abbas Palizdar, a judicial investigator accused senior ayatollahs and officials of corruption.
This is the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Blog of RSO (fa).



According to the Central Bank of Iran, the inflation rate for the past month was 25.3%, this is an increase of 1.7% compared to last month.
Strong domestic demand for consumer goods, surging food prices, and high housing costs are causing the increasing inflation.


The foreign deposits of Iran are $35 billion, while its obligations amount to $25 billion.
This reported the Bank for International Settlements, BIS, located in Basel, Switzerland.
The deposits in foreign banks increased by $3.6 billion in 2007 compared to the previous year.
The obligations increased with $700,000 during that period.
The positive balance of Iran's foreign exchange transactions at banks and other financial institutions was $9.43 billion at the end of 2007.



A Tehran province governor general deputy in charge of security said that the bomb which exploded in Tehran, May 26, was made by a saboteur.
The carbomb caused damage to nearby buildings but no deaths.
According to the newspaper Siasat-e Rouz the official said that those behind this action only wanted to showoff and that the Islamic revolution has always been threatened by enemies with ill intentions.

In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl