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Wednesday Iran asked Iraq to release Iranian pilgrims, currently detained in Iraq.
Each year thousands of pilgrims travel to Iraq, among them people without the right documents, some of whom are arrested over illegal entry.
Sources in Basra say that some 150 Iranian nationals are being held in detention in Iraq.



Turkey will increase its gasimports of Iran as the Russian-Georgian conflict has disrupted supplies from Azerbaijan.
BP announced on Tuesday that it had closed a natural gas pipeline running from the Azerbaijani field of Shakh-Deniz to Georgia and Turkey.
Reuters reported that a source at Turkish gascompany Botas told that the company would increase gas imports from Iran in order to compensate for a reduction in Azerbaijani supplies.He added that despite the BP decision, gas flow from the South Caucasus (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) Pipeline would continue for at least another week.
The Caspian Energy Alliance says that the closure of the BTC pipeline cost $500 million.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was closed last week after it was damaged by bombings by Kurdish separatists.



Iran's controversial new interior Minister Ali Kordan said that he in 2000 received a honorary doctorate from Britain's Oxford University.
Several Iranian newspapers and Web sites reported over the apparently fake document and Monday the speaker for Parliament ordered an investigation to look into the degree's authenticity.
Wednesday the university of Oxford denied ever have handed out to Ali Kordan an honorary doctorate of law.
In Iran was a little uproar when the head of Majlis Research Center Ahmad Tavakoli published a copy of the document, with all its misspellings and grammatical errors on his news web site "Alef" and the site was blocked by the Chief prosecutor in Tehran.
The lawmaker said that the act was illegal behavior on the part of the Tehran prosecutor and that such moves heralds the government's intolerance towards criticism.


According to GlobalVoicesOnline Iranian blogger Varesh wrote (fa) that the three detained students of Amir Kabir university, Ghasaban,Tavakoli and Mansouri, have been released.




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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