Iran: waiting

Four times heavyweight weightlifting champion Hossein Rezazadeh ended his career for medical reasons.
Doctors have prohibited him from taking part in any sports activity.
Last year he was involved in a caraccident where he suffered a knee-injury.
Rezazadeh, also named the "Iranian Hercules" has won gold at the Olympics in Sidney and Athens.
He was expected to win his third Olympic gold medal in Beijing.


Iran will resume its wheatimports next month.
Four years ago Iran reached self-sufficiency in producing wheat.
Last year Iran even started exporting wheat to Iraq and Oman, but due to a devastating drought, this year there was a heavy fall in grain production.
Officials suggest that the country will have to import 5 to 6 million tons of wheat by the end of the Iranian year (March 20, 2009) to prevent supply shortages. .



Behrooz Javid-Tehrani , a political prisoner who is imprisoned for four years in 2005 for charges of membership in the group Iran Democratic Front, is in another case in appeal convicted to 3 years in prison for having connections to Mojahedin-e Khalgh.
He learned of the sentence through an order submitted to him at Raja’i prison in Karaj.
In total he is sentenced to seven years in prison.



Press-TV reports that the Egyptian office of the satellite channel Alalam in the Egyptian capital of Cairo not has been closed by the authorities.
Earlier, AFP had said that securityofficers had closed down the Cairo bureau to protest against an Iranian film about the former Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat.
Alalam has declared on its website that it has not been involved in producing the documentary The Assassination of a Pharaoh.
Diplomatic ties between Iran and Egypt severed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran but in recent years, both sides showed their willingness to improve relations.


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