Iran: shake

July 4, 03,40 local time, there was an earthquake west of the city of Kashmar, Khorasan(central)province with a magnitude of 4,8 Richter scale.
Except for damaged buildings, no personal injuries were reported.



According to police in Bushehr, four foreign fishingboats were captured, illegally fishing in Persian Gulf waters.
The fishing vessels were Saudi-Arabian and the crew were 17 Indian nationals.
The documents are confiscated and the vessels are held in naval police headquarters in Southern Iran.


The peace group of the Dutch youth with the motto of "Global Peace and Promotion of Friendship among Nations" arrived in Tabriz,on their way to the Olympic Games in China.
They were received by the mayor of Tabriz.
They are scheduled to pass through the Iranian cities of Qazvin, Isfahan, Tehran and Gorgan.


During a speech in Tehran, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi warned the West for forcefully attacking Iran or imposing economic sanctions over its contested nuclear programme.
They would spread destitution in Iran and we will do our best to prevent this disaster occurring,she said.
The speech marked the formation of a "National Peace Council" of around 70 dissident Iranian politicians, social activists and intellectuals.
On the list of founding members of the council are Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the outlawed but tolerated Freedom Movement and Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death but pardoned for apostasy.
Also film director Jafar Panahi, winner of prizes at the Berlin and Venice film festivals and Iran's leading female film-maker Rakhshan Bani Etemad are on the list.


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