Iran:raise

This morning are in Evinprison in Tehran 29 people hanged.
The website of the Statetelevision IRIB said that they all were sentenced for murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking.



Saturday an earthquake with a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale happened in the city of Ashkanan in Fars province.
The earthquake was at 10.54 GMT.
There has been no report of casualties or damages.



The tv-channel Al-Arabiya reported that the group of sunni rebels had shot two more policeagents.
The channel reported it received a telephone call from a Jundullah (Soldiers of God) spokesman that two more hostages were shot.
Jundullah had said that they would shoot 2 hostages each week until their demands were met.
June 12 were 16 borderguards kidnapped by the group in Sistan-e-Baluchestan province.


Iran will not raise interest rates.
Today president Ahmadinejad submitted an action plan that after signing is implemented.
One of the requirements for interest rates for certain contracts are to be fixed at 12 percent until the end of the current Iranian year.
According to the governor of the Central Bank of Iran was a draft of this plan been initially presented in mid-April but was revised due to disagreements within the government.
With this plan, lending rates for special priority projects directed at increasing employment will be set to an even lower rate of 10 percent.
The two-percentage-point difference will be covered for by the government.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) had asked Iran last week to raise interest and take further policy measures to contain inflation.



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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