Iran: vision

The newspaper Aftab reports that Iran plans to execute by hanging
30 people July 27.
This will be the largest mass execution in Iran in recent years.
Aftab writes that the people are convicted of murders, drug-trafficking, illicit sexual relationships and other grave crimes.
The prosecutor's office of Tehran said that the verdicts have been approved by high judicial authorities.
The office also said that 20 of the convicted are drugstraffickers and that the other 10, were also convicted of "disturbing public security and disorder, beating up people, repeated robberies, having illegal relationships and showing up drunk in public."



The European Committee has lifted the air ban for Mahan Air.
The ban to fly European skies was imposed on September 11, 2007.
Reza Ja’farzadeh, the spokesman of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) says that the company’s technical and operational situation and its organizational structure is completely overhauled.
Once Mahan Air receives the permit from CAO, the company is capable of having flights to 25 EU countries.




Vedud Asadi, former chairperson of the Islamic Council at Ardebil Independent University, is July 22 arrested at his house in Rasht.
Security officers searched his home during his arrest.
He was arrested two weeks after he celebrated his wedding in ethnic Azeri-style.
Asadi is known as promotor of the cultural and language rights of Iran’s Azeri minority.
Why Asadi, who had been arrested before in recent years, was arrested is not known, but his sister says that putting the image of the Azerbaijan’s flag on the wedding cake must have triggered Iranian authorities.



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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